I am astounded by my multi-tasking abilities. I bask in anticipation of the praise sure to fall from my husband when he returns from his week away to find I have not only finished painting the chicken house, but have built an entire run from scratch. I am a veritable land girl, green-fingered, tousle-haired and […]
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Having it all – or doing it all?
We working girls are fond of rather smugly claiming that we have it all. The four bed detached, the Boden-clad children, the successful career… but I’m beginning to wonder what exactly it is that I have in such abundance. Indigestion, mostly, it seems. Today I was late home for the nanny for the second time […]
Mary Poppins is no match for Miss Marple
She’s late. The final short-listed candidate in our quest to replace Mary Poppins. We interviewed the others last weekend, and have refrained from making a decision until we could meet K, whose CV positively oozes experience from every line. My husband’s primary criterion is that K isn’t any larger than the others. It’s not that […]
Just clothes
Today I am helping my mother clear out my father’s clothes. She didn’t ask me, not in so many words, but she needed me to be there. I’m the least sentimental out of her daughters; the most pragmatic. They’re just clothes, after all. She begins to falter after just the first shirt, and I send […]
Sex o'clock
My husband and I have identified the ideal time to have sex. It’s taken a few years but we’ve finally reached a compromise. I like it in the morning, he likes it in the evening. He’s grumpy and tired in the morning, I’m shattered by bedtime. So we’ve settled on around 6.30pm, when the girls […]
Self-service
Supermarket shopping has got easier since the days when I was hounded by security staff for trolley abuse, and now I quite enjoy walking up and down the aisles with the pygmies in tow. So, the cupboards bare, I throw the kids in the car after work and decamp to the small Sainsbury’s in town […]