I went to London a few weeks ago for A Very Important Meeting. I arrived far too early and walked surreptitiously past my destination to make sure I was in the right place, whilst adopting the nonchalant air of one who is merely passing. There was a pub at the end of the road and I tried […]
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Networking and blind dates
My friend K is terribly good at networking. She’s extraordinarily well connected (although happily very casual about it) and very generous with her time and her contacts. I’d love to be a useful sort of person in that respect, but since practically the only people I know are my mother and my next door neighbour, […]
Red Rubber Bands
The other day I walked into the postal sorting office and waited politely at the counter for the man behind the glass to put down his reading matter. I craned my neck to see if perhaps he was mugging up on the latest postal delivery systems, but I think the articles had rather too many […]
Lotions, potions and sexual commotions
I have recently scored a few points in the on-going war between my husband (blogging is a waste of time, you spend more time with your computer than you do with me, blah-de-blah-de-blah) and me (blogging stops me going insane, my computer is nicer to me than you are, blah-de-blah-de-blah). My victory came in the […]
Book review: My Bump & Me – Myleene Klass
I wanted to like this. I really did. Not least because I so wanted those nice people at Virgin to send me more books to review. Something tells me I’ll be re-joining the library queue if I want to fulfill my literary thirst. As one whose first children were conceived in the presence of several […]
Shuffle ball change
We make a motley crew as we traipse into the village hall on a Wednesday evening, coats buttoned up against the cold. I suspect I’m not the only one who firmly believes, every time I put on my shoes, that I’ll be transformed into Ginger Rogers. We’ve all danced before; a spot of ballet as […]