Last night (Sunday) I sat down to write this post, but there were problems with my website so I couldn’t publish it. Fate I think as I realised it was rather jaded and cynical – a combination of two overtired little boys messing about instead of going to sleep and the fact I’m reading Slummy [...]
Perfume, chocolates, flowers, moisturiser – all these things are being advertised as what we want for Mother’s Day. My husband has even been emailed by Comet to suggest I might want a Dyson. Actually, all I want is to be left alone for a while.
This sounds utterly miserable, spoilt and selfish. I have friends who [...]
I cannot believe there have been ten years of Big Brother. I’m not a fan but it’s become an unwanted milestone of the year, so much so that a period of my life can be measured against it.
When the Big Brother phenomenon first dominated I was still working as a lawyer in London. I did [...]