If you go into the woods today….
We are home. I spent much of our last day skulking in the woods while my estranged aunt visited the children. As usual, she was two hours late, so by the time she finally arrived my planned “walk” had...
View ArticleFirst love…
As I said, Bea and Olivia could not join Facebook because they are too young. Instead they joined the BBC’s social networking site for kids. This is Bea’s bio, which was sent to me as I had to approve...
View ArticleMy father is on facebook
Normally this would not be anything special, but he happens to be of a certain age which I’m sure he will disinherit me if I write. Suffice to say he is closer to 100 than 50. Much closer. I am …...
View ArticleComa, what coma?
It all started with an email entitled ‘worried’ from my mother. No one had heard anything from my father for two days. “He’s not answering the door, or the phone,” she wrote. “The lady who lives below...
View ArticleCiao bello….
I was slightly surprised that my aunt was up so early. It was half past eight and normally she doesn’t surface until around ten. I had been up since seven watching the Chelsea game from the night...
View ArticleThe secret to surviving love at first sight
Happily married with three kids, Helena was shocked by her reaction to a chance meeting with her long lost teenage flame When I was 16 I fell madly in love with a handsome rascal called Willie...
View Article‘She asked to borrow my husband for a fetish party. Of course I said yes’
It was the week before I was due to give birth to our first child that I got the call (Helena Frith Powell writes). “My date has pulled out of the party,” wailed my best friend. “Please, please lend...
View ArticleSex in la Cité really is a Carrie on! The French are up in arms about...
Despite French criticism, the series has drawn a huge audience, thanks in no small part to its heritage. If you’re getting déjà vu — pretty young woman working in media teetering round a major city in...
View ArticleWho is Kirsty Bertarelli – and what does her ‘£400m divorce’ look like?
As Kirsty Bertarelli – newly crowned Britain’s most eligible divorcee – surveys the £400 million settlement that marks the end of her 21-year-long marriage to Swiss businessman and pharmaceuticals heir...
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