Lending laughter to (mid) life

Not only am I a low maintenance wife, I am easily pleased. So the fact that Husband took Friday off… Read More »

We are a Telegraphhousehold which is a bit stereotypical and, since nowadays newspapers are no longer bringing us the news… Read More »

Further to yesterday’s moan about teenagers being permanently clamped to mobile phones, I think I will be watching the first… Read More »

Sadly it’s not possible to obtain a GCSE, let alone an MBA, in the subject of parenting. Although if Ed… Read More »

What has happened to Autumn, the season that I love? Obviously I don’t love it is because winter follows immediately… Read More »

Oh girls you’ve got me all in a panic, I hadn’t really been thinking about Christmas until now, but I… Read More »

Annabel – couldn’t agree with you more about Christmas shopping. I am already getting cold chills down my spine at… Read More »

And it’s 63!! Don’t you sometimes wish life would just slow down a bit and we could catch up. Half… Read More »

Isn’t modern communication wonderful…………at times. Last evening, having taking mother to visit her new grandson (and my nephew) I came… Read More »

Apart from becoming a Great Aunt yesterday (yep, am now officially ancient), I donned a particularly fetching hard hat and… Read More »

Grace is a genius though if I had my way dinner parties would be only puddings as I love them… Read More »

Gracie…a backwards dinner party, how genius, onecould do that for any generation, such agreat twist on the traditional. The cake… Read More »

…and a good time was had by all. Son was happy, so we were happy. Backwards dinner party (all courses… Read More »

Has my darling Husband become an egotistwhen I wasn’t looking? He is going to be 50 next summer and has… Read More »

Whew, I’ve had a busy few days. True, not as frenetic as when I was working – in those days… Read More »

The majority of my friends and acquaintances have reasonably academic children. Children who have sailed through school with, if not… Read More »

Not the normal worries i.e. are they alive? are they doing any work? are they eating properly? BUT will they… Read More »

I think we all live such busy lives and we don’t manage to slow them down so that there are… Read More »

Gracie I know just what you mean about one minute feelingdown heartedand the next being up again. These low-spirited moods… Read More »

I thought Louis Walsh’s comment last night that John Adeleye could be “the dark horse” of the X-Factor competition was… Read More »

THIS MORNING:Sometimes, and I really know absolutely no reason why, I feel down. I have nothing to complain about –… Read More »

I have admitted previously that I am an avid reader of The Lady Magazineand this week it has introduced a… Read More »

For me it’s the X-Factor every time, although I don’t muchlike the way it makes me cry! I have always… Read More »

In my youth I was probably doing both and, with Grace and Ellie, after a ‘skinfull’, and thinking back, with… Read More »

I have been living in a fairly remote rural area for over six years now, but one thing I don’t… Read More »

So, so excited when postman delivered parcel ofFleece jumpers for dogswhich as you will see, colour co-ordinated very well with… Read More »

My 17th birthday party was a train crash. My parents insisted on giving me a lovely bigto do,and happilyit coincided… Read More »

Never again, and I know one is not meant to say never, but this has to be the exception. Eldest… Read More »

As I was ironing Husband’s just-can’t-get-the-creases-out-however-much-steam-I-use white shirts, I was listening to a news report about some teenagers who had… Read More »