Dulwich Divorcee

My adorable regulars will know that I recently got a nasty bit of junk mail – the spam of doom. Probably most people would have deleted this without blinking. With my history, I proved effortlessly that a grown woman can go from nought to jelly in 0.000001 seconds. I freaked.
Once I’d stopped gibbering, lots of [...]

So it was the school fete yesterday – the hottest day of the year so far and not, you may well feel,  ideal conditions to sell shed-loads of buttercream icing. Nevertheless, my girls and I had made a commitment to run a cupcake stall and run it we were going to, no matter what.
Saturday, the [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

My clever friend Tara over at Sticky Fingers has been running a gallery at her place for ages now. I think it’s a brilliant idea, but I’ve been holding back from joining in because, well, not to put too fine a point on it, my photos are crap. I’ve had many cameras in my life, [...]

If, like me, you have the odd day (week/month/life) when you feel you are a less than adequate parent, rush off to UK Gold tomorrow and watch Outnumbered. Seeing the hapless parents being outmanoeuvred, outclassed and, of course, outnumbered by their amazingly talented offspring (isn’t the little girl stunning? And terrifying) always makes me feel [...]

It’s holiday time. And I have a very clear idea of how things should be organised:
Fantasy
In January, I spend a happy weekend surfing lovely places to stay. I book judiciously, and soon I have little entries on the calendar for April, a weekend in July, and two weeks in August. I spend the rest of [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

I’ve just heard the thud of the post hitting the mat. And I can tell by the size of that thud that there is a good haul of catalogues included today. Yummy! What all those retailers don’t realise, though, is that, for me, leafing through the catalogues, or even surfing online for goods, has virtually [...]