by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Aug 22, 2016 | Arts, Travel
As we grow into Executive Youth some of the things that gave us pleasure as young people – Shakin’ Stevens, Vesta curry and pints of snakebite for example – lose their appeal. This is why the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is extra special. It is a feature of...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Aug 16, 2016 | Arts, Travel
Tuesday August 16th 1977 is a day I shall never forget. On this day I kicked a small, Spanish girl in the head. I hadn’t meant to; she’d run in front of the swing I was playing on and I didn’t know how to say ‘Mind out!’ in her...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Aug 6, 2016 | Family, Tips
I thought as much. A quick google has revealed that T S Eliot did not have children. Only a man with no children could come up with the line ‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.’ Anyone with children knows you measure out your life in car parks. By my...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 8, 2016 | Fashion
I have just pulled a pair of pants out of the bathroom bin. The pants in question belonged to my husband of more than two decades and might well have been that old. As I held them up for inspection (acceptable to the British Heart Foundation? Serviceable in the...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | May 19, 2016 | Family, Health
I could be wrong and I’m willing to be corrected , but I’m pretty sure that the term ‘sunblock’ didn’t even exist in the Northern Hemisphere in the 1970s and 80s when I was growing up. In those heady days when the UV rays of the...
