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This doesn’t happen on Masterchef ….
So those lovely folk at Anchor asked me to make something yummy to celebrate their 125th birthday. And, better yet, they asked for an elevenses treat. So far, so excellent. As a child, I loved Winnie the Pooh, mostly because he was always ready for a little snackerel round about this time of day. Some [...]
Continue reading...Everything must go
23. January 2012
I’ve got that restless, rootless feeling. There are loads of things that need doing in the house – including a major revamp of the central heating – but I can’t muster up the botheration to get it all moving, even though the bathwater is tepid every morning and the girls’ radiators are covered with ice. [...]
Continue reading...Car trouble?
19. January 2012
And another in my series of dodgy car number plates snapped badly with my iPhone while I’m on the school run. I wonder what this lady driver’s friends say to her when she asks:”does my bum look fat in this?”
Continue reading...Fringe benefits?
18. January 2012
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a fringe. And it’s always been a pain. Every time I see a photo of myself, I grind my teeth thinking, ‘that fringe is too long/short/tufty/a total mess.’ I’ve tried different partings, made trickier by the fact that I have a double crown so that my [...]
Continue reading...Never knowingly overpraised
17. January 2012
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I couldn’t quite believe it when I heard Nick Clegg, or ‘the Cleggster’ as I now think of him after reading the Guardian’s Westminster Digested column, beseeching British business to copy John Lewis. Is there anyone out there who doesn’t just adore John Lewis? First it was the huggable Christmas ad, flying in the face [...]
Continue reading...Dreamy?
16. January 2012
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I had a dream ….. unfortunately it wasn’t about racial harmony, a solution to the economic crisis, world peace, or, well, anything remotely serious at all. Of course not. I’m deeply shallow. It was about pets. The star of my subconscious show was a rabbit. Well, two rabbits, actually. Child Two, who has always been mad [...]
Continue reading...Shoplifters of the world unite
12. January 2012
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The first thing I thought when I heard about Anthony Worrall Thompson’s shoplifting spree was how odd it was that middle-aged women no longer seem to be doing this. It used to be all the rage among the hot-flushers – the papers used to be full of women of a certain age saying they ‘didn’t [...]
Continue reading...Just forty winks …..
11. January 2012
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Gosh, I am sooooo tired these days. I don’t know whether it’s staggering out of bed in the dark, the longer school run, the sheer hellish shock of getting up early again after nearly three weeks of lolling about over Christmas, but my eyelids are permanently heavy. When I’m not actually yawning my head off, [...]
Continue reading...Happy Feet 2
9. January 2012
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A lovely day out just before Christmas when we were invited by Kinder to a screening of Happy Feet 2 just off Bond Street in the West End. As you can imagine, the whole area was seething with panicked shoppers looking for that last-minute pair of socks for Uncle Tony, but we swanned past them [...]
Continue reading...Hot Chocolate
1. January 2012
Well, here we are – in 2012! I’m sure this was the year that Tomorrow’s World predicted we’d all be swanning around in white jumpsuits while robots did the grungy stuff like running the country and sorting the laundry. My big brother and I used to be glued to that programme. Of course, he has [...]
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25. January 2012
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