Off to Soho at the weekend to see the Tooth Fairy – a charming tale of a professional ice hockey player whose game, and life, have slipped. He spends his days reducing grown men to tears, by whacking the teeth out of their heads on the ice, and his evenings making children sob by telling them …
A huge thank you to the lovely E for sending me these pictures: Getting the school bus, Japanese-style: Quite swanky, you might think. Well, look inside: Yep, computers and desks! Here they are in use: And here’s how they get to school in India: I wonder who has more fun?!
Those lovely folk at Ready for Ten asked my offspring to take part in their political meme. Child Two was simply too busy to oblige, but I managed to snatch five minutes with Child One. As you will see, she is really the one who should be voting tomorrow, not me, as she is ten times …
Hello darlings, I know I promised you the full gen on my protracted holidays, but a certain amount of hissing and booing at the school gates has made me aware that people may not have total sympathy for the Barbados contingent of volcationers. I’ve also taken a lot longer than I thought to scale the mountain …
Well, we’re back. I can’t pretend we’ve suffered terribly as ash refugees. I’ve just been looking at those pictures of poor people sleeping on the floor of Bangkok airport ( I hope they had some Cillit Bang to give the place a good going over before lying down) and I had loads of texts and …
We are having the time of our lives in Barbados – seeing the wild shores of Bathsheba, rummaging through the hot shops of Bridgetown, eating snapper, mahi-mahi and breadfruit every night as the ocean laps behind us. There is just one leeetle tiny problem ….. somewhere, thousands of miles away in Europe, there is some volcano …
Well, my dears, I’m off to sun myself for a while, or at least to drench myself in factor 50 in the shade while the children frolic. Back in ten days. I’m missing you already …..have fun too! DDxx
If you’re casting around for things to do on a wet Bank Holiday, then look no further than the movie Nanny McPhee. This is the lovely film premier I was invited to a couple of weeks ago, then embargoed from talking about. An embargo at my dangerous mid-40s age is a dicey thing – there …
I got home all fired up to take a picture of our Easter tree to show you. This is a little ritual we adopted while living in Belgium. Basically, you take any old twiggy branch, and festoon it with lots of fluffy day-glo chickies and eggies and Eastery bits. When we first arrived back in …
Lovely Linda of You’ve Got Your Hands Full and Have a Lovely Time has nominated me for this award !! Normally I would go all middle-class and squirmy and ‘what, little me?’ and ‘oh, I don’t deserve it’ and ‘I couldn’t possibly ask you to vote for me.’ But the voting closes tomorrow. There’s hardly any …