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The Wasteland
I was going to write a long post about the pain of missing my children. They’re off on holiday with Mr X, and I’m certain they’re going to have a lovely time. But it’s a lovely time without me. Very hard. The trouble is, like labour pangs, it’s either the sort of pain you already [...]
Continue reading...The Only Divorcee in the Village
7. July 2008
There are one or two advantages of being The Only Divorcee in the Village. Well, actually, I can’t think of two, but there is one – I am in great demand as a last minute dinner party stunt guest. Everyone knows that, since my husband got custody of our social life, I am available before [...]
Continue reading...Upsy Daisy
17. June 2008
When you find yourself on the floor after a good kicking, you have a choice. Get up, get on and get even – or lie there and moan piteously. I must admit my natural inclination is to lie still and not even bother with the moaning, though I might work up to the odd faint [...]
Continue reading...The Secret
2. June 2008
There is only one way to get over the duvet debacle, and that’s to change my entire life and everything in it. Apart, of course, from my darling children, my house, my cat, my friends and the car that I have become quite attatched to (both because I can’t turn the seat-warmer facility off and [...]
Continue reading...Duvet days
30. May 2008
Once upon a time, four child-free days would have been a dream come true. Nowadays I dread sending my little dears off – it happens much too often and gives me much, much too much time to think. A friend in a similar leaky boat told me the secret is to keep busy, so I [...]
Continue reading...Summer of my passions
15. May 2008
Ah, to be in Dulwich, now that summer’s nearly here …is actually rather a pain. Much as I adore the general scenic leafiness all around, as Dulwich’s premier (only) divorcee, I can report that there is not a single, single man to be had anywhere in the vicinity. Of course, this mattered not a jot, [...]
Continue reading...The Fool on Herne Hill
17. April 2008
As Dulwich’s foremost expert on divorce (as you know, I am actually the only person in Dulwich who is divorced, the rest of the place being stuffed with ridiculously happy couples) I expect you have all been waiting for my pronouncement on the recent McCartney split. In fact, I find it quite hard to be [...]
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8. August 2008
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