Dulwich Divorcee

Back to school

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I count myself lucky this year that I have not come under huge pressure from my little treasures for Unsuitable Items. Most Septembers, I have been held hostage while terrorist demands, for anything from high heeled school shoes (yes, it is possible to get them, even Clarks have the odd brainstorm, and of [...]

Review time

This month we’ve been really lucky and had lots of lovely goodies to try out. My favourite has been Fade Out day cream. As my friends know, I have an almost pathological hatred of getting sunburnt, and at the first faint glimmer of English sunlight I break out the factor 50. One tiny bit of [...]

Respect on the road

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I’ve just found this priceless video, acted by five year olds, on road rage. Do give it a click, it’s horribly funny – and I mean horribly, because apparently the children scripted it themselves, based, one can only assume, on what they’ve already seen on the roads in their short little lives.
The video is [...]

The greatest holiday in the world

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Good news! After writing about my travails sorting out the summer holidays this year, things are finally falling into place. Our relatives have a window in July which we are shimmying into, after which we are going camping (yes, really! Me! I’m shocked too. I’m borrowing a tent from a lovely friend. She assures [...]

The queen – a real woman

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I was lucky enough to go to a huge event yesterday with TL –  absolutely huge if you’re a scientist. It was the Convocation of the Royal Society. The Royal Society has been concentrating on sciencey stuff since 1660 and every big boffin worth their mad hairdo, from Newton on, has been a member. [...]

Crisis of conscience

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I’ve been having a bit of crisis of conscience lately. As you’ll know if you’ve popped in before, I don’t often do sponsored posts, mostly because I think they’re a bit boring for you. If they’re run over a number of other blogs as well, you can find yourself visiting quite a few cyberchums, only [...]

Bare essentials

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The very lovely people at essentials magazine have asked me to write about the most important woman in my life. They’re looking for real people to grace their magazine, which I think is a great idea.  I think we’re all pretty fed up with looking at stick-thin, air-brushed women, who are meant to inspire us, but whose lives, [...]

Film screening

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Hello my dears, I thought you all deserved a lovely treat, after all my shocking boasting over the last few days (in case you’ve managed to escape it, my book is coming out today!! Click here to have a peek: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-de&field-author=Alice%20Castle).
 
How about seeing a preview of the new Warner Brothers film Sandra Bullock has [...]

Shopping for Britain

I wouldn’t normally venture to Oxford Street this close to Christmas. For most of the year it is a mildly uninspiring, too large but reasonably convenient shopping venue, but in mid-November something strange happens and it seems to be taken over exclusively by mad people on a mission to buy horrible things for people they [...]