I was watching telly with my girls recently and there was one of those toe-curling moments. It was an ad for a pregancy test, and said more or less you could get a result before you’d even missed a period. ‘You could find out you’re pregnant even before you meet the man, at this rate,’ I …
Living with teenagers is like being in a permanent hostage situation. There is a constant stand-off between the terrorist (teenager) and hapless negotiator (parent). There is a perpetual threat of violence in the air or, if not actual violence (my girls are lovely girls!) then at least of outbreaks of major door slamming and a teenage …
Sponsored post As you all know, I’m not much of a shopper. Ahem. Could you stop laughing at the back there, please? I can hear you, you know. Obviously I do have a slight, passing interest in clothing – one has to throw something on one’s back, after all – and sometimes it is my …
Exactly this time last week, I was lying with my feet up at the Sanctuary, having a head, neck and shoulder massage courtesy of those darlings at Special K. Yes, I know, it’s nice work if you can get it ….. but in fact, and you may find this hard to believe, I did struggle with …
It’s that Nativity time of year and, as usual, my sympathies go out to all those representations of the baby Jesus, be they shiny plastic dolls, real live babies who’ve been volunteered by their proud mothers, or even stuffed rabbits, as happened recently at a junior school near us. Why on earth does He need …
Christmas is coming, there is a mountain of presents waiting to be wrapped in my wardrobe – ooops, given away my special secret hiding place now – and there are relatives about to descend. When I passed the butcher’s in the village, I saw that the last day for ordering your free-range, organic, no doubt …
Sponsored post I’m not very good at saying no to freebies. We have a cupboard full of apple-flavoured liquorice to prove that. I don’t like liquorice, I don’t like synthetic apple – at what point exactly did I feel the combination was going to improve things? Sometimes I just make myself sigh. Anyway, you take my …
Sponsored Post Oh my goodness, those clever chappies at the Radisson Park Inn have come up with a devilishly cunning game in their great holiday giveaway competition. As if it wasn’t enough that they are offering free week-long holidays – free, I tell you! – in Berlin and Tunisia, as well as £250 vouchers to be spent …
Sponsored Post I used to think that the Co-op was just the name for a slightly down-at-heel chain of supermarkets. Turns out it’s a lot more than that. It’s had a revamp of late, it’s started to call itself The Co-operative and it’s got the lovely David Tennant (or someone equally yummy-sounding) doing its TV …
We’ve been sent a few classics this month to be put through the rufty-tufty Divorce Towers product testing procedure: 1 Vosene’s new range of head lice repellent conditioning shampoo and detangling spray. While I can’t pretend this kit was high on mummy-pleasing glamour, it was extremely useful to ward off the legions of head lice …