My youngest child has just taken off for Thailand for the start of his gap year travels with some mates. Now I just have to work out how to carry on living my life and not worrying about him every 30 seconds. I’ve done all I can and now it’s […]
Blimey. The scandal in America regarding desperate parents bribing coaches and cheating on students’ entrance exams has reached a new low. Some parents have apparently paid $500,000 to a “university admissions consultant” who can then get their children into the universities of choice such as Yale and Stamford, through the […]
I hate this stupid ongoing trend for Gap Year Travel. I wasn’t bloody allowed to have one – probably because they weren’t invented when I was their age, but honestly, it’s so traumatic for the parents, I think they should be banned – at least until their frontal lobes are […]
Bonjour. Ca va? Je m’appelle Affaires de Famille et je vais en Angleterre à Londres. Je suis trés vieux et consequentment je suis en difficulté avec apprendre des mots français. Ce TRES DIFFICILE et je suis MERDE AT IT parce que mon brain cellules ne répondent pas. La semaine après […]
I thought I’d write a letter to my 23 year old daughter on International Women’s Day to offer her some sage advice from an older, wiser woman who has been round the block a few times and got the scars, the wrinkly skin and the snaggle-teeth to prove it. That […]
The fashion world has clearly gone mad and it’s time to get a grip. Fashion needs to change. Literally. Karl Lagerfeld, the creative director of Chanel who died this week has left his cat, Choupette, some of his £150 million fortune apparently. She already has a bodyguard, two ladies in […]
OK so I’m going to have a go at predicting the “AND THE WINNER IS…” moments for the Oscar’s this year. What does anyone else think? BEST PICTURE A Star is Born (I know, it’s very, very hard to choose…) LEAD ACTRESS Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born LEAD ACTOR (thought […]
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! I am feeling pretty pleased with myself because a HUGE bunch of red roses arrived for me today. WOOHOO! Sorry to be smug, but to be fair, I have never in my life received two dozen roses and so I’ve had to wait a long time…. I […]
Spent the day on Sunday with two out of three of my children and a crowd. Lunch, followed by the rugby at Twickenham, followed by Adam kay “This Is Going To Hurt”, that my son had bought us both for our Xmas pressie, followed by a curry. It was a […]
GUNG HEI FAT CHOI AND HAPPY NEW YEAR OF THE PIG!! I feel a little bit sorry for the pig right now though because it seems that both in Chinese and Western culture we have a habit of putting a Pig on the menu for our New Year’s feast. They […]
Like everyone else, I am slowly but surely losing the will to live over the ineptitude of our government to reach a fucking solution. TWO YEARS and it has come to scrabbling around at the 11th hour and now we are expected to have a further wait and to add […]
New research from the University College London says that divorce is less painful for children if it happens when they’re younger. Those between the ages of three and seven in their test of 6,000 children were 16% less likely to suffer emotional and behavioural problems than those between seven and […]
So we are half way through the month – how are you doing with your New Year’s Resolutions? My detox of Dry Ginuary is going exceedingly well. In fact I’m quite cheerful, despite the outcome of the government vote yesterday and I would highly recommend that you abandon your resolutions […]
