For too long now February has been thought to be the dullest and most depressing month of the year. Worse than January where you still have that post Christmas glow and the ever present possibility of finding uneaten chocolate christmas tree decorations, or a half drunk bottle of baileys that you’d forgotten about, manages to […]
Sunday evenings used to be all about last minute home work and that dreaded feeling of knowing that you had school the next morning and even if you had done the homework it probably wouldn’t turn out that well.
Fortunately, one of the good things about growing up is that you no longer have homework, and […]
Today is one of those days where I’m clearly practicing to become one of those old ladies for whom nothing is ever good enough…
My back hurts - damn new chair at work
Its taking forever to find anything I want to listen to on i-tunes
My feet hurt - damn new boots
I have a very large gas […]
I remember when snow meant snow men, and snow ball fights, and snow angels, and joyous days off school, and fields and fields of pristine white, crisp snow.
Now it means cold grey sludge, discovering that your trainers leak half way on the walk to the tube station, being sprayed by the gritting machine as you […]
‘”Excuse me! Excuse me! You’re lovely”
Local hoody, as I walked through St Johns Wood on Saturday night - bless his good manners.
Three things currently making me smile
1. London: A life in maps
2. Winter Flowers
3. Ugly Betty”
The most talked about thing in the westminster village this week has not been the latest home office crisis, nor the re-arrest of Lord Levy, or Tony Blair’s second interview with the police but the start of Party Animals, BBC2 drama claiming to “take a look at Westminster from the ground up – the young […]