by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 8, 2018 | Family, Health
I’ve just got out of the shower. We have a new shower. Well, it’s not new… we bought and installed it ourselves in January 2016. What we failed to realise when we bought and installed it was that it required water pressure beyond the capacity of our plumbing at the...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 1, 2018 | Food
That bloody Easter Bunny has been again. Oh I could swing him around by his cottony bobtail! Curse that rabbit and his chocolate droppings! My cupboard is awash with myriad sweet treats pertaining to a festival I long since stopped celebrating. (Once you’ve had to...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Mar 25, 2018 | Health, Tips
This week I heard verified on Radio 4 (must be true) something I already knew: most treatments for back pain are ineffective. As I write, I am sitting at my desk with non-specific lower back pain. A hot water bottle is crushed between my spine and the chair. The...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Mar 18, 2018 | Family, Food
I’ve just done a terrible thing. I’ve lied to a friend. She invited my husband and me to dinner with some pals of hers she thinks we’ll like. Always a tricky one, this business of meeting other people’s friends. It’s fraught with danger. Will we have to sublimate our...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Mar 11, 2018 | Family, Talking Points
It’s Mother’s Day. And it’s my first Mother’s Day without a mother. Generally I would have spent the week leading up to today scouring the shops for pretty things; sparkly things with glitter, glittery things with sparkles. My mum died last summer, a few days before...
