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Ding Dong the scab has gone
It really is a Christmas miracle. I woke up on Boxing Day with a top lip that looked a bit blistered and ever so slightly coldsore-y, but I soldiered on through the Selfridges sale ignoring the swelling and avoiding my … Continue reading
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Tagged cat, coldsores, elderlyparents, parents, pohutakawa, thelastdinnerparty
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Location House Wanker
Tuesday: The dog and I have been sitting in a functions room at The Torch pub, at the top of the road where it breaks away from the Wembley Park new housing complex/stadium/London Outlet Designer Outlet nonsense and instead rises … Continue reading
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Tagged dogs, kete, lily-allen, location-shoot, New Zealand, the-torch, vogue, wembley
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Puglia: a photo essay
So we just got back from two weeks in Italy which of course sounds unbelievably fancy to a girl from Tikipunga. And it was so fancy. Here’s the ingredients to Fancy Vacation Pie: 4. Do your maths, but loosely. Very … Continue reading
New old everything
We moved in almost a calendar month ago, into a house – detached – with four bedrooms and a very fought-over office, with two reception rooms, a garden, parking space, three loos, a massive loft, a staircase, and a house-worth … Continue reading
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Tagged breadahead, fryent-country-park, marriage, mid-century, moving, moving-house, stress, W2, wembley
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How’s the house hunting going?
Well, not great. Unfortunately things got off to a bad start – expectations were raised to an unholy level – when we fell in love with Georgian wreck. Oh, what a wreck! And what a weird location, tucked away as … Continue reading
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So many surprises
Usually I feel the urge to write once every four weeks – the thoughts and memories and stories that line my head build up until there’s a pressing need to spill it all, in long sentences with stupid typos and … Continue reading
A little bruised
I fell over on Wednesday morning on my before work run, heading out into the greyish morning with stiff joints and feet that weren’t lifting quite as high as they needed to be. I jogged to the corner at the … Continue reading
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Tagged bruised, career, cliff-jumping, getting-old, kids, lipstick, middle-aged, running, Turkey
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Before we go
It’s 6am and I have been awake for an hour getting excited about flying off on a holiday today. By ‘getting excited’ I really mean anxious about the jobs left to do. There’s the dog, and the food compost bin … Continue reading
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The Harridan 