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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
2017-09-02 08:07
Fate has a dark sense of humour, and she is not to be tempted. Put a haircut and afternoon tea at Claridge's in the diary, and Fate'll guarantee your little darling arrives a week early (wha… Read More
2017-05-31 07:00
From the sofa on Sunday evening, back screaming from neck to coccyx, arms leaden, belly taught and heavy, and feet and ankles approaching the size of fully inflated pufferfish, I conceded to… Read More
2017-04-25 19:25
I've not sat on a horse in three months, and I'm not sure I've ever missed anything more (at least not since I lived in Tanzania on my gap year, and spent nine long months dreaming solidly o… Read More
2017-04-10 19:48
“And what about if I press here?”“Yes, that hurts.”“Here?”“Yup.”“And here?”My eyes welled up as I gripped the sides of the bed. &l&hell…Read More
2017-04-06 13:14
My pregnancy didn't become externally apparent until quite far along, but the “Baby on board!” badge was obviously quite clear as I stood on the tube going home late after work o… Read More
2017-03-31 09:10
It's an oddly emotional experience, saying goodbye to a flat you've lived in for five years – and one that's seen your life change in momentous ways.From relatively early on, it was in… Read More
2017-03-10 07:46
Nothing prepares you for seeing that the peed-on stick perched on the edge of the bath says, quite clearly, “PREGNANT”.Not the fact that you've been discussing a family, in the a… Read More
Recent Reading
2017-03-08 14:16
With all my books packed snugly into boxes and a ban on bringing anything into the flat that'll need putting in a box, I'm currently on a reading hiatus. But the beginning of the year saw a… Read More
2017-03-06 11:44
It's something special, an unequivocal sense of belonging. A feeling that you are where you should be, or that you know where you come from.Years ago, a friend whose parents moved to the UK… Read More
2017-01-24 22:29
When a man is tired of London, Dr Johnson said, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can affordIf Dr Johnson had been a millennial, he might have instead said that when… Read More
2016-08-20 13:50
A wee homage to The Guilty Feminist podcast – a podcast in which the glorious Deborah Frances-White and phenomenal Sophie Hagan in front of a studio audience explore their noble g… Read More
April’s And May’s Reading Lists
2016-06-05 07:00
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood3 - 13 AprilI often struggle with Atwood. LOVED Handmaid, but started Assassin four times and then gave up. This was somewhere in the middle: solid New World upst… Read More
March's Reading List
2016-04-07 07:00
My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem23 Feb - 1 MarchWhat’s not to love about a memoir by one of the original feminists? Steinem tells about her father’s peripatetic attitude to li… Read More
2016-03-31 11:00
There was a piece on the Guardian recently that suggested that we’d all be happier if we cared less about our jobs.I can see the logic: clock in, do as much as it takes to get by, don… Read More
2016-03-12 12:21
Based on Rachel’s recent piece about what she’s learnt since turning 31, some unsolicited advice for those facing the big(ish) three oh, and things I’ve learnt up till this… Read More
February's Reading List
2016-03-03 08:00
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett30 Jan - 10 FebGod I love everything this woman does. I would read Ann Patchett’s shopping lists if only she’d publish them. Th… Read More
2016-02-24 20:59
It came up in discussion with The Writer over crab linguine on a Wednesday night.(Bring a pan of heavily salted water to the boil, and add 200g linguine. In the meantime, sweat four cloves o… Read More
2016-02-18 08:00
Wherever I go, whatever bag I’m carrying, I always have a small notebook with me.It’s recycled brown craft paper, with plain pages; small, about A6, and dog-eared. Unremarkable… Read More
2016-02-13 08:00
I’ve always been very much a cat person. For more than 30 years my parents have had cats; I grew up with and have always loved them; and after buying my house, Colin was one of the fir… Read More
2015-04-23 07:30
No one tells you that in the run-up to your wedding, you'll have nightmares. It's something the magazines and websites merrily omit as they flog you increasingly expensive trinkets and tchot… Read More
2015-04-20 19:48
I’ve not dedicated as much time to reading this year as I’d have liked (wedding and work: the two Ws that seemed to take over my life), nor kept a proper note about what I’… Read More
2015-04-14 07:30
I started blogging ten years ago. It was during the Spring of my first year at university, a self-indulgence, and a way of keeping note of the various scrapes in which I found myself.Bloggin… Read More
2015-04-11 07:30
“Oh thank GOD, you’re alive.”“What? Of course I am. What’s up?”I’d not heard my phone go; it was only as I’d shoved my bag out of the way with… Read More
2015-03-29 16:57
"So, it's getting pretty drastic. I basically need him to come home immediately."Over a cup of tea, a colleague and I were stealing a few rare moments from the blurry haze of mania that has… Read More
2015-03-25 08:00
It is, as the saying goes, a small world.(I remain to be convinced of this, because the maths suggests otherwise. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's more to do with the fact that privatel… Read More
2015-03-23 08:00
The fact that I hunt is a bone of contention amongst some family members and friends.I can understand it: hunting is a divisive issue. I come down on one side of the fence (mercifully so far… Read More
2015-03-19 08:00
In an attempt to be more disciplined in my writing, I've bookmarked a year's worth of prompts. When inspiration fails me, there'll be a word, or a phrase, or a topic to fall back on. And I'l… Read More
In Which There's Comfort In The Everyday
2015-03-17 08:00
It's not the done thing to admit how attached we become to inanimate objects. We're always told that people, rather than stuff, is where we ought to find our fulfilment. And while I absolute… Read More
2015-03-15 16:34
There are so many reasons I've not written in months.I've put pen to paper, sure: lists mainly (guests, menus, to do, to buy, to pay, photography, still to do, to organise, to pay). Tho… Read More
2014-10-20 07:30
Once, it was just what you did. But marriage - and the decision to get married, and the act of getting married, and everything that goes with it - in 2014 feels like a political choice, a st… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I don't remember wanting to be a princess when I was small. I'm sure I did: it was the 80s and people weren't so concerned with gender-free parenting, so there must have been at least some p… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
8. Title: The Shock of the FallAuthor: Nathan FilerRecommended by: someone at London Book Club - apologies, I can't remember who - and given a copy by HollyRead: 28 February - 4 MarchI had h… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I go to a yoga class after work on a Monday. The teacher has a calm and meditative voice, and the emphasis is on stretching out muscles and focusing on one's breathing. I find it hugely rest… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Another prompted post (but goodness, they make it so much easier to write). This one from The (utterly wonderful) Redhead: first impressions.I’m a terrible one for making snap decision… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Following two prompts from Please Don’t Eat Jo, other people seem to be getting in on the act which is, frankly, marvellous. A text from Culture Vulture on Saturday showed a diary entr… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I've lost the writing mojo recently. This post follows a text message from Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Open containing a prompt: "75 words on the last time you were truly surprised". &n&hell…Read More

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