Category Archives: Family
Moving out, moving in: one street and a grand new chapter
“October,” he said. “I’ll need the house back for my daughter.” My landlord sounded vaguely apologetic but businesslike on the phone. I had been his tenant for nearly seven years, moving in a hurry to escape with my daughters from … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Feminism, Friends, Health, Life and romance, London, Motherhood, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged boyfriend, Daughers, evolution, growing-up, happiness, life, motherhood, moving house, parenthood, travel
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The fine art of fashion retail or “we do that one in red”
Frock shopping is not a loved pastime: browsing is anathema. If I need something new to wear, I work out what it is and where to find it. The “where” is important because I am a fan of the independent … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Feminism, Life and romance, London, Shopping, Uncategorized
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Face to a Name: the dementia care revolution unmasked
One rainy January afternoon, I made my way West to meet up with a business colleague for a long overdue exchange of news. Over coffee in the congenial surroundings of Soho House, Jake Arnold Forster described his work with organisations … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Family, Friends, Health, Life and romance, Uncategorized
Tagged Age UK, alzheimers, Alzheimers Society, CareScape, COBIC, dementia, Face to a Name, Forte Medical, healthcare, healthcare campaign, hospital, Many Happy Returns, memory, My Life Software, patient, photographs, revolution, St Frances Hospice Berkhamsted, The Times, This is Me, Whose Shoes, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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A tale of clever women and country cottages.
The charms of a weekend in the country have largely eluded me over thirty years as a Londoner, mainly because I feel safe in these smokey streets. So when invitations to go there began to arrive, I thought long and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Entertaining, Family, Feminism, Food and wine, Friends, Life and romance, London, PR, Shopping, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Aldeburgh, Art, boyfriend, Camerons, Clever women, Cotswolds, country, countryside, education, Girlfriends, intellectual, Kate Moss, Oxfordshire, Ruby Wax, sassy, sculpture, Suffolk, wellies
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The last week in April: 100 midwives and a 50th birthday
My Birthday Cakes by Giorgia Maria Last month I fell in love. I fell in love with Midwives and with Edinburgh. The combination contrived a fitting warm-up act to my birthday celebrations. To be specific, that birthday celebration. Edinburgh is … Continue reading
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Tagged 3Thirty, 50th birthday, April, birth, Bollinger, cakes, Catching Babies, celebration, Comedy, dancing, David Eyre, drugs, female health, Forte Medical, Fringe, Giorgia McAllister, Graham Farnworth, Heart in the Womb, hygiene, Luis Forte, MaMa, Mothers to be, oestrogen, Paella, patisserie, Peezy msu, Roxburghe, Scotch, silversmith
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For the love of a good man (or few)
Men. Don’tcha love’em? I do. In fact, I very do. Why? Well, as my year-end blog housekeeping took me on a walk of posts passim, I noticed that I have mentioned the Beta Boys on a number of occasions. The … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Feminism, Friends, Life and romance, Uncategorized
Tagged Attention, attraction, attractive, Beta Boys, brain, brains, chemistry, Clavicle, collar bone, collarbone, Eric Morecambe, expressive, eyelids, friends, humour, men, Morecambe and Wise, New Year, nostrils, Physical attractiveness, sex, sexism, sexuality, sexy
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Rumpelstiltskin, Fatsia and Flourishing Fuchsias
Writing a story about a yard seems unprepossessing by any stretch of the imagination, but bear with me if you would. Because this is in fact a rather touching tale of how an Ugly Duckling Yard grew up to become … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Friends, Life and romance
Tagged Bergenia, Fatsia, garden, garden furniture, Gardens, hammock, London, London Brick, paving, planting, plants, Rumpelstiltskin, soil
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That was a week, that was
Seven days in the middle of May: a more varied, demanding, entertaining week I can hardly remember and although it threatens to belie description, I’ll try. My efforts are necessary if only because, as a failed diary keeper this blog … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Entertaining, Family, Feminism, Food and wine, Friends, Life and romance, Uncategorized
Tagged Articulate Communication, David Eyre, Dragon Rouge, Entertainment, Eyre Brothers, Forte Medical, Girlfriends, Good Food, Hanway Street, Old Fire Station, Peezy, Prosecco, Smith + Village
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