Picture creditThe last time I wrote about a Wife-guide, I got into the kind of trouble you never expect, but that has the potential to divide a family until the end of time. In making a point, I didn't choose my words carefully enough and almost had to stop blogging altogether. So I have been reticent about this post.DH bought me this book for Christmas. Not, I hasten to add, as an insult or a pointer, but more because he thought it would be good … [Read more...]

This was my original thought, though not very original at the moment (I'll have you know I was ahead of the trend on owning this poster and have it in my downstairs loo.) It's appropriate after a week of awful commuting experiences and poonami incidents from both PD and WH. The WH very thoughtfully rolled in fox poo then rolled all over my *gasp* cream sofa this morning whilst I was bathing PD and putting her in her third outfit of the day. And … [Read more...]

I have always loved reading, have always been encouraged by my parents to read. I never really thought that there was a right and wrong thing to read until I was thirteen and had my books confiscated by Matron. She deemed Danielle Steel to be inappropriate (yet she left Judy Blume's Forever, which to my mind was much racier....) reading material, despite the fact that I had been dispatched back to school with a job lot of said fiction by my … [Read more...]

By the way, for those of you still to go on your summer holiday, you can buy a copy of 'Handbags and Hopscotch: the Essential Guide to Being a Girl' here, written by my wonderfully talented friend, Lucy Mangan. It's out in a couple of weeks. I've been invited to the Launch Party, though have no idea what one wears to that sort of thing. Don't want to go all Bridget Jones, in an inappropriate dress and babbling incomprehensively about Salman … [Read more...]