FRIENDS AND FAMILY
I haven’t done a “life” update for a while. To be honest, it’s all been a bit of a shit show of late. A number of family dramas that are all too sensitive to talk about and I’m single again […]
I haven’t done a “life” update for a while. To be honest, it’s all been a bit of a shit show of late. A number of family dramas that are all too sensitive to talk about and I’m single again […]
For many, the last 18 months has been a horrendous experience and in some cases it continues to be so. There are those who are still grieving, those who are still angry or sad, those with long Covid, many who […]
A few years ago I wrote a post called “Love at First Sight for the over 50’s” all about how love at first sight happens more often, the older you get. I wasn’t totally convinced about relationships after divorce and felt […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I was planning to give up wine and just drink gin all month for Dry Ginuary and maybe champagne so that I could argue that I’m allowed to drink things that have fizz, but I’ve already failed, […]
HAPPY BELATED CHRISTMAS TO ANYONE READING THIS. Now we are in the much needed quiet zone between Christmas and New Year – Twixmas, with many of us slightly befuddled that our New Year’s Eve plans are allowed to go ahead. […]
What a shit show the UK is right now. Covid-19 numbers rising exponentially again, petrol shortages, energy shortages, food shortages, WINE shortages to follow soon (especially when I start panic buying) and it will remain to see if we have […]
My baby boy is TWENTY ONE!!! OMG how did that happen? His birthday is on the 7th July and this year it happened to coincide with the Euro semi final between England and Denmark. Little did we know it would […]
One of the regular conversations I’m having with my friends of late is about relocating once the children have left home. I suspect this discussion is typical of our 50 + age group, but it has been brought forward by […]
Will we make it to the all-time summer of love this year? It won’t be the same without Glastonbury, but the mood is definitely in the air. Boris and Carrie have managed to have theirs. Here’s one of my favourite […]
I think I managed to hit the peak of my professional Pilates career during my Zoom class for my friends this week. We were in the middle of doing the side plank and I had my phone in front of […]
WEEK 12 OF LONDON LOCKDOWN This is all still very surreal. Sometimes it’s easy to forget momentarily about the global pandemic for a minute as we slowly open up, but that’s only until you get glared at by a fellow […]
No matter what the question, family is the answer….so HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES to you all. This should be an international bank holiday – better than Mother’s and Father’s Day as the family is the very foundation of society. […]