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Gym Bobbins

Over the years I’ve been a member of your UK swanky city-centre female-0nly places; your corporate-shop ‘love your boss – love your gym!’ deals. And plenty of East Mancunian Spit n’ Sawdust in-betweeners. So I think that I do know my moolah’s worth – and that I’m good at judging the overall social-aggregate, when it […]

Roald Dahl, Scottish Independence and Terrorist Infants

Daughter (10):  It’s Roald Dahl’s birthday today Me: (distracted, as per usual): Sorry? Daughter: Yeah. I always remember it because it’s between my birthday and yours. And we were all told about this at school.  IT’S ROALD DAHL’S BIRTHDAY THIS WEEKEND. Like …. it was the Queen’s birthday or summat! But way better. Obviously. Because […]

Naked, Exposed … And the Knickers

Of course, none of the nice writer-chums who encouraged me to write the dratted book and to get it published TOLD me that I would feel all of the above. Why didn’t they explain to me that every time I meet someone who has read the damned thing, I would feel just a tad bit […]

For the ‘Chicks’…AND the Chaps

Women and Men in The West  – regardless of their upbringing or education or politics… or of how well-read they are often don’t realise how different the paradigm is for girls and women (and the men in their lives)  when it comes to equality and gender issues in the most developed and marganalised communities in […]

Give More? And How?

It was a bit of a toughie for us.  Making the geographical move from parenting in a desperately poor developing nations…to raising kids in a sickeningly materialistic, wasteful and ‘Me Me Me’ and ‘Mine Mine Mine’ culture…. How do you bridge the gap? How do you teach your kids that there is more to changing […]

Like help, my face cream ran out. And then my lippy too! Life is sooo tough.

This morning I realised that I had totally run out of face cream AND lipstick. And I was like ‘Arghh! That’s, like soooo EVIL!’  I mean, it was a real bummer. Kind of ruined my day. Something that men get away with, without getting all stressed about…. Life is hard being a woman… Actually – […]