by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 2, 2017 | Health
It’s official. I am an over achiever. Hard to believe if you were to look at my modest collection of qualifications and my even more modest income, but it’s true. At least, according to my Fitbit. But frankly, I’ll take validation wherever it comes from. Yesterday I...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 25, 2017 | Family, Talking Points
When he was five or six, my younger son came home from school singing a song. The ‘Shopping Song’. “We’re going shopping,” he warbled, ‘we’re gonna shop, shop, shop ’til we drop, we’re gonna spend some money...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 18, 2017 | Family, Sport
It’s Father’s Day. As is traditional, I have bought my dad a bottle of Molton Brown shower gel. It occurs to me as I wrap it up, that I have never, in the forty-lots years I’ve been his daughter, known him take a bath. This is not to say he is a man...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 11, 2017 | Family
“Have a look at these,” says my friend Sarah, placing a box of trainers onto my kitchen table. “Altra Escalante, zero drop. One hundred and twenty quid’s worth of running technology!” I look at her, confused. “Have you been invited to join the Kenyan...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 4, 2017 | Family
My mum is coming over for lunch. Consequently I am armed with kitchen roll and anti bacterial spray and I am cleaning every light switch in sight. One is never too old to feel the disapproval emanating from a beloved relative. My mum hates a dirty light switch. I...
