The Boyfriend, who is still basking in the balmy climes of west Africa, sends me a text every morning to say that he’s been for a run (along beautiful, Atlantic palm-fringed beaches) followed by a swim in the sea. I, on the… Read more →
We have been clearing stuff out. We’ve talked about it for ages, and been doing it on a small scale, but last weekend we actually started moving rooms around. I mean, of course, the contents of rooms, but enough to start calling… Read more →
Everyone is talking about having babies, ‘40-something: last chance saloon babies’. With the clock ticking getting louder, me and my mum contemporaries are wondering if we want to do it all again. I don’t know if I want another baby, my jury… Read more →
I t was over two years ago that I wrote about the impressive refurbishment of the Grade II Listed seafront home of Pink Floyd rock god Dave Gilmour. The location of the Hove mansion is no secret locally and the quality of… Read more →
I’ve become dotty. I don’t mean polka dot bikini wearing. I mean sweetly deranged. Why is this happening… I turned 40, not 90. I don’t understand it. Well, I wouldn’t, I’m dotty now. I will probably never understand anything much again, even… Read more →
Imagine if there was a global lost property, where all the lost hats, gloves and scarves of children went. It would be a mountain, a very soft mountain and remarkably colourful, much photographed, I guess, and the sort of thing that would… Read more →
My dithering French girl has finally moved out. She was replaced two days later by a very opinionated North African who is here for just three weeks studying English. He arrived on a very rainy and cold St Patrick’s Day, which is… Read more →
I have mentioned the quality of the mews of Hove in the past. One of my favourites is Wilbury Grove. It was only recently though that I discovered a hidden mini-mews, running parallel with Wilbury Grove, that serves just one house –… Read more →
The first time I discovered the Kent countryside was Trevor McDonald on the News At Ten muddling up the vowels on those two words. (I didn’t understand why my parents were laughing so hard…). The second time I came across Kent was… Read more →
We went to the Jurassic coast, but no, we didn’t find any fossils. (Let’s dissipate any narrative tension straightaway.) Still, there was much to enjoy on our recent holiday, including a guest celebrity. I last went there to Lyme Regis 23 years… Read more →
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