It’s that time of year again, when the old phone starts packing up and I am reminded that my Vodafone (with an F)  contract entitles me to a new one.  This time the BlackBerry Storm is on offer, beaming down at me from billboards everywhere, and true to their word, Vodafone dispatch one to me [...]

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This press release arrived via email, just as my heroine was getting stuck in Malibu and I needed something to distract me.  Maybe he took the take-calcium-for-nails recommendation a little too literally?  Or was it zinc?  
 
LCN, the original company for all things hands and feet, are pleased to announce that one of their nail [...]

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http://www.mumsrock.com/articles/rock-guides/more-rock-guides/how-to-be-a-player-in-the-playground
I’m addicted to a new website.  Mums Rock is funny, practical and all about the perils and pleasures of being a mum.  Ignore the fashion tip of the week, which is to buy some of the ugliest boots I’ve ever seen in my life.  Go instead to the articles about being a player in the [...]

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I’m sitting in the restaurant on the 5th floor at Harvey Nichols, interviewing a new perfumer, when all of a sudden he glances at my notebook and bursts out laughing.   “Oh you’re so cute! You’re just like the Americans!” he says, pointing at what I’ve written in my notebook. 
Be afraid, be very afraid.  When [...]

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So civilised these days.  Back in the day you’d scramble to get close to the bonfire only to make a hasty retreat when the ash started to fall on your face.  There’d be a mad-cow infected hot dog or burger stand, and someone would have smuggled in some beers.  Now it’s like son et lumiere, [...]

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I wouldn’t dare to offer you any political commentary on what is surely the most momentous day in American history in a long time, there are far too many people out there who will do it far better than me, but I will offer you 20 hot chocolate fondant puddings to celebrate this and to [...]

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Half term is over, and instead of being relieved at having my sanity semi-restored, I’m thrown into a panic that I’m not keeping up with the Duponts or whatever the French equivalent of the Jones’s is.   My kids go to the French school in London, which is a fabulous institution, a hybrid of comprehensive [...]

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Spent yesterday freezing on an open top bus tour round London with the kids and the friend who complained her skin was dull.  Nothing like an open top bus tour in ice cold conditions to make your skin dull!   I had followed up her query with the publicist from Space NK, Anna Rozelaar (as [...]

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