Sponsored Post What would you do if you won a year’s salary? At the moment, I think I’d probably just cry. All right, everyone knows you don’t get rich by blogging unless your name is Dooce, but most people say they can just about cover their coffee bills. Maybe I drink too much coffee. Luckily, …
Ever since the great Window Box Theft, I’ve been looking around me anxiously. Which is ridiculous, obviously, for here we are in leafy Dulwich and there are, frankly, few safer places in the globe (I am clutching an enormous chunk of wood as I say this). The theft, I am sure, was down to over-excited teens, who passed my beautiful …
Sponsored post For those of us already panicking about the looming half term – yes, I know, already – I’ve been putting on my thinking cap. In fact, it’s more of a woolly bobble hat, as the thought I’ve had is skiing. I have a friend who’s been taking her daughter, quite regularly, almost all …
This month I’ve really been spoiled rotten. Darlings, you shouldn’t have – but I’m so glad you did. First it was the lovely Green & Black’s, sending me a box of chocolate bars, including my utter favourite, Butterscotch. Well, Butterscotch, I’m sorry but you now have a rival for my affections, the rich, smooth and delectable …
Sponsored post Is it just me, or is this a really pricey time of year? Every time I go near the girls’ school bags, bills seem to fly out and stick themselves to me. They’re either from the music teachers, who are all clearly eager to build swimming pools behind the lovely second homes they …
Sponsored post I must admit I have a slight horror of kitchen gadgets. I well remember the smoothie maker that Child One was desperate to have for her birthday. It has wonderful, sleek, art deco lines – and is as big as New York’s Chrysler building. And then there’s the chocolate fountain, not much smaller than …
TL and I took all the children to a screening of Universal’s new cartoon Despicable Me at the Vue Cinema in Leicester Square. Just as the lights dimmed, he produced a newspaper. ‘Just in case,’ he smiled. I tutted. ‘Imagine if this film were as good as the Jungle Book and we were the first …
Sponsored Post I’ve been asked what was the best value free family entertainment at Divorce Towers over the summer. Well, no contest. It was going to Dulwich Park. This has been quite a novelty. I’ve loved the park since we arrived here four years ago. I walk round it twice a week with a …
I often fondly imagine that I’ve escaped the pitfalls of my upbringing, and emerged into adulthood as my own person. All right, that makes everything that has gone awry no-one’s fault but my own, but it still makes me feel independent and proud. And then something happens that makes you realise how much your parents’ …
Sponsored post The lovely chappies at VoucherHub have asked me to have a peek at their site and, as I’ve already come clean about having a little bit of a voucher habit this week, I’ve said a breezy ‘why not?’ My voucher addiction started a couple of years ago, when I noticed that, during internet shopping, you get to …