‘Heartburn’ by Nora Ephron. Two things, actually no, three things made me buy this book. Reason non 1: the cover… I know, I know, the old adagio still stand, don’t judge a book by its cover… but sometimes I do, we all do. We judge people and fruit and shoes by the way they look, …
Beneath The Sweater And The Skin (by Jeannette Encinias) How many years of beauty do I have left? she asks me. How many more do you want? Here. Here is 34. Here is 50. When you are 80 years old and your beauty rises in ways your cells cannot even imagine now and your wild …
On Friday Mr M and I were invited to the races at Ascot for the day by my sister and her husband. Oh my what a fun day. As you know (or maybe not) the dress code at Ascot is VERY strict. There’s a whole page with instructions on the website. Jumpsuits were only allowed …
I’ve been to Ascot Racing today. I had never been before and it was great fun. The people watching was topnotch. Horses, I mean horses. Did I say people? I meant horses, yes the horse racing was topnotch.
sooooo, silly title I know, but I’ve been trying to change a few things around here – here as in real-life here as opposed to blog here – and one of the first things I did was, weirdly, change our toilette rolls buying habits. Maybe you’re interested and maybe you’re not, and if you are …
Oranges are not the only fruit (Jeanette Winterson). I really don’t know what to say about this book. The short of it is that it is an autobiographical telling of the author adolescence in a strict working class, Pentecostal family in the Midlands and her personal relationship with God whilst coming to term with her …
It was wonderful. One guitar, one bloke in a tee-shirt and 70,000 people in the palm of his hand. He said scream we screamed as loud as we could; he said sing we sang, loudly, out of tune, making up the words; he said wave your arms and we waved. For a while on a …
I stumbled upon this poem yesterday whilst flicking through my phone on the way to Ed Sheeran’s concert; I came across various articles on ‘The New Yorker’ about ‘fathers’ – it was father’s day after all – and I enjoyed one in particular, written by Daniel Mendelssohn, all about his late father and the cruise …
On Sunday we’ll be taking a family trip to Wembley Stadium in London to see Ed Sheeran play. To say I can’t wait it’s slightly an understatement… It’ll be the boys’ first live concert and I hope it’ll be magical and they’ll remember it forever. I certainly remember all the concerts of my teenage …
Back in 2013, Mr M and I visited Nashville. For me it was a dream come true, I love country music and was in music heaven… for Mr M it was a work trip and days of endurance… his feet are firmly grounded in 80s British music so that wasn’t really his thang. Bourbon helped. …
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