We had a good break full of rest, movies and good food. We went for walks. We napped. Like I said, good times. We had some heart-warming moments (opening the gratitude jar and reading our notes from the last year) – followed by heart-breaking moments (me landing the edge of the jar on the edge of my mobile screen and crunching it. Fer realsies.) We … Continue reading Over-reaction is just a slushie away!
It’s taken me a while to get in the Christmas spirit this year. 500+ days in limbo as a non-British EEA citizen. The orange guy. It’s just been hard to feel sparkly. But of course, sparkly or not, DD has a long schedule of events where she’s performing, and last night was one of them. In true DD style, she announces a few short hours … Continue reading Getting there, slowly
Just three short months ago, I wrote Oh, London, my London, and it hurt to write it. But last Friday brought me to my knees. DD and her schoolmates had to walk out a back entrance of school, with news helicopters hovering overhead. She came home and just got into bed and watched the Gilmore Girls. I woke up in the middle of the night … Continue reading A different kind of Monday
Y’all are used to me updating the blog or Twitter with “I’m safe, nowhere near the attack/bomb/insert London incident here”. Not today. Not effing today. Today, I am smack in the middle of crazy central. But outside the cordon that has my daughter’s school in lockdown. Yes, my baby girl got to school just in time. Some of her friends were not so lucky. There … Continue reading Too damn close to home…
Dear Reader, if you’ve been following me on Instagram, you will have seen the luscious red velvet cupcake I posted a few days ago, to mark my turning a year older. Not wiser, or funnier, just older. One year short of I-think-I-might-be-grown-up-now. Being the research ninja I am, I thought looking into the mid-life information on the interwebs might give me some pointers as to … Continue reading The Middle Ages
Supposedly, Marilyn Monroe said, “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.” I’m inclined to agree with that. Up to about ten years ago, my shoes were vertiginous, multitudinous and splendorous. Seriously, I used to store most of them at work in a cupboard that was supposed to be dedicated to files (no guesses why my team was the first one … Continue reading Shoes to conquer the world
DD has been going through the rigmarole of senior school entrance tests. Each one tougher, more challenging. The beauty of living in London is all its opportunities. Including going up against the brightest and sharpest 10 and 11-year-olds the city has to offer. DD has two parents who never chose the path of least resistance, so why would she? She seems to be taking all … Continue reading Seeking Success
To my daughter, on her tenth birthday Continue reading One decade on…
I am exhausted with a lack of sleep and a surfeit of worry. Four weeks ago, DD got norovirus. It was disgusting, noisy, and plain debilitating. She just about got over that, when two weeks ago, she got croup. Croup! At the age of nearly-ten. We soldiered on through that and the bone-chilling barking cough which accompanies it. She mustered on. Two nights ago, she … Continue reading I am felled…
Debating man-made holes in the head, otherwise known as ear piercing for the under-age… Continue reading Lend Me Your Ear
Petal & Mortar 