I was asked twice over the summer, (which is quite a lot for me), about back to work clothes for the modern, go-getting woman (who also possibly has a couple of kids and hasn’t seen inside an office for 5 years). I had no clue at the time and indeed wrote back “Don’t have a clue, mate” but just recently… View Post
Is anyone else drowning in freaking start of term admin? I’m not sure what is worse, the cavernous boredom and ennui of the summer holidays or the two-places-at-once mind-bend of term-time. And also can I just say, I hate school holidays, all of them. Officially. My children are too old to be taken to a playground or to a museum… View Post
What is it with Africa? What is it about it that drives some people, particularly Europeans, so completely deranged with greed and grabbiness? I admit I am obsessed with most of the continent, particularly from the DRC southwards, but why? It’s not greed or grabbiness on my part – I swear it! I do not want to enslave indigenous people… View Post
I had a revelation the other day and that is: I am going to stop drinking in public. You heard me. I am challenging the old wisdom that if you drink “on your own” then you’ve got a problem because come on, aren’t we past all that? Of course I’ve got a fucking problem, mate! Anyway my plan going forward… View Post
And when I say “vest” I mean it in the American sense of a sleeveless tank. This is from Me + Em and I like the look of immensely – I had something very similar earlier this year from La Ligne via Net A Porter, which quickly sold out. It was much admired on Instagram but as it was sold… View Post
Last time I looked it was March. Then it rained for what felt like 6 weeks and now it’s the middle of June! Term will end any minute now and we’ll be back in the summer holidays, my least favourite time of year. And so the only thing to do is go shopping. My son Sam, who is now eight,… View Post
I’ve been a little blue recently. Haven’t we all? A sense of vague discombobulation, forgetfulness, non-specific fatigue. And then a few weeks ago the Corens got a very bad vomiting bug, all four of us, one after another (have I mentioned this already?) and it knocked me out for about a week. Now we’ve all got a cold, more fatigue,… View Post
I am hugely impressed by this. I have tried on so many bloody beige non-wire bras recently and finally found one that is a keeper. The Sloggi Zero-Feel bralette has nice medium support, discreet padding which is thick enough to prevent crisped-up nipple display should there be a sudden cold gust of wind but not so thick that it adds… View Post
A difficult thing about parenting is meeting your child’s challenges with them as a parent and not as your hurt inner child. So many things that our children have to face down, be it problems with school, siblings, self-image, friends, uncontrollable consumer lust, sugar – whatever, are so triggering. So, so triggering. In fact you’ve never really been triggered until… View Post