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Happy Solo Mother’s Day
It’s Mother’s Day and I have done my usual, posting the Dove ad on every single platform in wild abandon. Even Linkedin this time which is a bit of a corporate/me clambering into a bath weird crossover but I figured … Continue reading
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I can’t really say
I’ve given up writing about the stuff that is actually going on, because obviously the children have grown old and they know I write this and now I have to be a bit more like those other mothers who blank … Continue reading
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Tagged kids, wembley, pregnancy-shots, oversharing, birthdays, hrt, fondue
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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, New Zealand, wembley, location-shoot, the-torch, lily-allen, vogue, kete
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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
The Harridan 