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Things your children don’t need

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  Back to offering unrequested advice again. This time parenting advice, like it or not. It’s almost Boy Three’s seventh birthday. (Seven! I know, can you believe it?) So it was necessary to organise a celebration. Interesting how there’s an inverse correlation between the number of children’s birthdays you’ve presided over and the level of […]

Winter is coming: The chilling effect of Game of Thrones

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You know something serious has happened when, despite the deadline clock ticking, you find yourself on a website that discusses the relative hotness of the male characters of a TV series. Furthermore, you catch yourself vehemently disagreeing with the opinions therein. Even if he wasn’t a psychopath, Joffrey Lannister wouldn’t muster tepid, let alone hot. […]

Stop talking rubbish and mangling our language

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If you’re not careful, there’s potench for murder It’s funny how they say that the red mist descends. In my case, it rises, boiling up from the pit of somewhere dark until everything is fury. This week it was a chirpy PR person’s query about whether or not the thing he had just sent me […]

Becoming the Fitbit family in an attempt to stop things sagging further

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In another of those moments  they don’t tell you about, I found myself gazing at the bathroom mirror trying to work out if my earlobes had begun to droop or not. It turns out that time is something of a bitch, or maybe it’s gravity that the real villain. Either way, there’s no doubt about […]

Why the Duchess of Cambridge and I are so similar

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  So Kate is doing the Indian tour and what a lovely lot of outfits she’s chosen. Tasteful and appropriate, for the most part. Even the “common touch” cheap ones. I do the same thing… pop on something from George at Asda just so that everyone can see I’m, you know, one of them. Then […]