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The news that Russian police are questioning a star dancer from the Bolshoi about the acid attack on the ballet company’s director reminds me of a bizarre time I had on the Daily Express years ago. It was the first time that a certain Russian ballet company – not the Bolshoi – had ever performed [...]
Continue reading...Tsk moments
21. January 2013
Possibly it’s an age thing, possibly it’s a blimmin cold weather thing, but I’ve had a lot of tsssk moments lately. You know, those times when something happens and you just want to shake your head and say, ‘tsk.’ Take Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour this morning. There was a piece on heavy periods. And who [...]
Continue reading...Reviewing the situation ….
18. January 2013
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There’s something absolutely pitiful about the case of the girls groomed in Oxford by a group of men. The men seem to have targeted their victims with a chilling deliberation, sniffing around for girls who were already skipping school and beginning to slide off the rails, where no one would notice if things went even [...]
Continue reading...Horsing around
16. January 2013
I’m mot sure about all this fuss surrounding hamburgers containing horsemeat. OK, so the Tesco Everyday Value burger containing 29 per cent horse is a little hard to swallow, in every sense. But the other burgers tested only contained traces of horse DNA. I know, I know. If you buy beef, you should actually get [...]
Continue reading...Made with love
11. January 2013
I’ve got that wonderful, warm, woolly feeling. I think I may have fallen in love. With crochet. Yes, crochet. Knitting’s less glamorous sister. I know, it’s a bit unexpected, but isn’t that love all over? Anyway, this is how we met …. I noticed that our new sofa cover, bought from Ikuva to sling over [...]
Continue reading...What have you got to gain?
8. January 2013
I’m sorry to do another sponsored post so soon after the last but I think you’ll forgive me when you hear all about this. I had the most glorious get-over-Christmas day at Westfield, having a make-over and becoming a billboard model (yes! Really! Me! Ok, ok, don’t overdo the disbelief …) for lovely Special K. [...]
Continue reading...Goodbye to our friend Asia
18. December 2012
And just when you thought things couldn’t get any gloomier …. our friend Asia has just died. Ok, people die, you may think. What’s the big deal? Well, Asia was in her 30s, was fit and healthy, but apparently had a heart attack and fell down her stairs. And that was it. Asia is gone. [...]
Continue reading...So this is Christmas
14. December 2012
Christmas isn’t an easy time for any woman. You see us, battling around the shops, shoulders hunched, faces grim, as we do our best to grab the stuff that will, like magic pixie dust, transform our grumpy family (and isn’t every family grumpy in this cold, dark, wet, grey December?) into a Norman Rockwell festival [...]
Continue reading...Having my cake ….
11. December 2012
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I must say, sometimes my timing is brilliant. Accidentally, of course, but brilliant nonetheless. Take yesterday. There’d been a recipe in the Sunday papers for panettone. Now I have a bit of a panettone addiction. I can easily eat quantities of it that would frankly stun you, in a single sitting. A sensible person would [...]
Continue reading...This little piggy …. sponsored video
7. December 2012
A while ago I told you about Nat West’s paint-a-piggy-wig competition, more properly known as Pigs by Kids. The idea was to design a rival to the Nat West pig family of yore, those rather delicious ceramic figures which the bank gave away a decade or so ago and which have now become highly collectable, [...]
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26. January 2013
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