I can’t pretend 2011 has been brilliant so far. On New Year’s Day my car was keyed on three sides. This casual wanton scraping by (presumably) a drunken teenager will cost me between £1500-2000 – or I should say the insurers will be paying. But then my premiums will go up and I will be …
Ok, so here it is finally, my pre-Christmas post. Yes, I know, I’ve somewhat missed the deadline, but you know what? I had presents to wrap, turkey to stuff, all that malarky that you’ll know about only too well as you had to do it too. Only you managed to get a Christmas post up …
A bit of a shocker yesterday as the headmistress of the school my daughters attend sent out a letter confirming that Ruby Thomas, who has just been convicted of manslaughter after stamping a man to death (I can hardly type that without feeling sick) in Trafalgar Square, was at the school three years ago. According to my daughters, she was …
I was really excited to be asked along to a behind-the-scenes tour of the Royal Institution, including the making of this year’s Christmas Lectures. The Christmas Lectures have been taking place since 1825 and have been televised since the 1960s, making them much more of a long-running Christmas tradition than Christmas cards and even Christmas …
It’s Gallery time and clever Tara has the most beautiful picture on her blog today of someone who’s going all out for Christmas. I can’t help but admire their chutzpah as they zoom towards the big day on a multi-coloured sleigh. Here in Dulwich, unfortunately life is a bit more restrained – except in Divorce …
A friend lent me a copy of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat, Pray, Love in the summer and I admit I rather put it to one side. I had already been asked to be on a panel discussing Julia Roberts’ film of the book and, while I was very honoured, I really didn’t want to get …
Interesting to see that Lord Sugar (what a shame we can’t call him Surrallan any more) is having a spat with Piers Morgan and Chris Evans on Twitter. It just shows that even apparent grownups, or in this triumvirate’s case, close equivalents, lose all sense of proportion when they have a whole 140 characters to …
This week lovely Tara’s Gallery theme is White. I did think I could go a bit oblique on this, and sidestep the obvious snowy picture – but then I thought, nah. I’m just not in a clever mood, snow is beautiful and fleeting and, more importantly, I actually have quite a good picture to use. It’s of the playground opposite the …
So there I was, banned from seeing the latest Harry Potter film – even though I have faithfully taken the girls to all the other films, read the books, bought the DVDs and even asked them all the quiz questions on long car journeys across Europe. I am one of the few people without the …
