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I’m Not Sulking
Today is the kind of day where I feel a bit like crying, or a bit like whacking someone around the chops with a handbag. For no reason at all. Maybe something to do with demands on me, or lack … Continue reading
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Surprising South American Tamarillo
Before we begin, it is necessary to set down the searingly important, mind-bogglingly-wonderful, most game-changingly amazing thing to have occurred over these 13 years of blessed migrant slumming. You can get tamarillos in London, and not just at The Providores … Continue reading
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Tagged churros, Notting Hill Carnival, tamarillos, Turkey, Wallace Collection
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Weeping craters
We have been to Turkey, which is warm, yellow, blue, with lizards and bats and meaty tomatoes that make you feel briefly teary-eyed when you realise how good they taste alongside sheepy cheese – and you know you might never … Continue reading
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No One Wants To Know About Your Cycle
A few days ago, I thought I might have been pregnant. Just a tiny bit. And so I was oscillating between really excited, and then horrified, and then kind of embarrassed, then nervous, and I was attributing everything from headaches … Continue reading
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Life Rules: Part One
So, absolutely no one has asked me to write a guide for being less worried, or about parenting, or about eating more vegetables. No one. And I’m not qualified to give any advice because I live in a two-bedroomed basement … Continue reading
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Tagged Crockford Bridge Farm, Hayward Gallery, parenting, Southbank, Turkey
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Dubai
Last Wednesday, I went to Dubai with my friend C and her baby. And here we are in Terminal 5, right before we left, drinking a breakfast martini at Gordon Ramey’s Plane Food, which turned out to be the alcoholic … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby thighs, Dove true tone, Gordon Ramsey, Ritz Carlton, Tom Ford lipstick
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Manic hyperlinking alert
I am kind of broken, and it’s not just me. But let’s not get straight to the punchline. Let’s go back about a month ago, to when things were lovelier, and there weren’t any deadlines, and most things were intact. I … Continue reading
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Arrow
Today, this morning, I ran my second 10k race and I was pretty slow and I totally did a torrent of accidental wee at the end. The others were supposed to watch me coming into the finish line, but they … Continue reading
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White Jelly Shoes and OUCH my sympathies to Kate
So, the royal baby was born yesterday, which isn’t that interesting, except if you are me, who loves a baby, especially an elusive girl baby, and if you live close enough to the hospital when she was born to run … Continue reading
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I am not always calm or firm or consistent
There’s a very nice lady who lives in the street and she has a baby and is about to have a new one and she said that she likes my calmness and if I wrote a book on kids she … Continue reading
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The Harridan 