Dulwich Divorcee

Book coming out on Friday!

OMG!
I know I slightly overuse those three little letters, but this is definitely an OMG moment.
My book is coming out on Friday!

I had been vaguely thinking about contacting my darling agent to see when (or even if, I admit I am a terrible pessimist and publishing is a fast-moving, cut-throat and jolly picky world) the [...]

Mud sticks

Thanks to the brilliant Littlemummy’s clever blogswap idea, I’m proud to introduce my guest blogger, the lovely Ella of Most/Least. Ella is a former homeschooling mother of four, whose little boy has a serious kidney condition. She works, she blogs, she dazzles, and today, she’s doing it all chez moi:
I’m very excited to be guest [...]

Sick Child Syndrome

What is it about Wednesdays and Thursdays? These are the two days a week when I’m supposed to do my impression of a grown-up, and go and work in a real open plan office, hang out by the water cooler, and pretend I have a glancing interest in whether England won against Egypt last night. [...]

Handbag tag

Lovely Exmoorjane has tagged me and challenged me to reveal the contents of my handbag to the world.
Now this would probably have been a much more painful exercise if I hadn’t decided to Transfer yesterday. For those of you not in the know with handbags (I’m probably talking men here) Transferring is a sacred ritual which takes [...]

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum ….

So Child Two came home on Friday and made an announcement which nearly caused me to vomit.
‘I have to make a model of the Forum in Rome.’
As if this was not bad enough, she then added:
‘And I have to make it out of matchsticks.’
It took all my strength not to propose a joint suicide pact. [...]

Things not to do at half term

I’ve compiled my special Divorce Towers list of Half Term pitfalls …
1. Don’t be a single mother. This applies to more than just half term, but I’ve shoved it in here just so I can try and garner a bit of sympathy in advance before you all decide you hate me. You’ll see why when [...]

The Cupcake concordat

Laydeeez and gencleplums, may I present Divorce Tower’s entry in the delightful English Mum’s Cupcake Concordat?
As you will see, they are as pink and fluffy and Valentiney as anyone could ever wish:

Delish, n’est-ce pas? I can say that without seeming (too) disgustingly boastful as it was actually Child One, my secret weapon, who made the [...]

Good taste

The Scene: the sitting room at Divorce Towers
The Cast: Dulwich Divorcee, Child One, Child Two and a special guest star appearance by True Love.  
Act One
The lights go up as the four participants are clustered around a single piece of paper. ‘Don’t rip it!’ ‘It’s mine!’ ‘Get off,’ and ‘Could you all just go away, this [...]

Lame claim to fame

We were listening to the splendid Capital Radio this morning, with Johnny Vaughn and Lisa Snowdon. The subject was lame claims to fame, and they included a woman who’d sold a sofa to Daniel Beddingfield and someone who’d once dressed up as Bumble in Rainbow. Excellent!
Of course, it got me thinking of my own lame [...]

Bomb threat procedure

I simply can’t resist passing this on to you. Obviously I cannot reveal my sources, except to say it was NOT from any office I have ever had a connection with. Because that would just be ridiculous, wouldn’t it?No, never ever – not in a million. Nope. Definitely n-o-t.
 
Anyway, read and enjoy. Oh yes, and [...]