by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 22, 2018 | Family, Talking Points
Here are the things I would like to come home to after work: Rupert Graves holding a chilled glass of good champagne. A hot bath with Floris bath essence. A clear pathway from the door to the kitchen. A kitchen table with nothing on it. I know. The whole Rupert...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 15, 2018 | Family, Talking Points
I’ve been looking at photos on social media of friends taking their offspring on the tour of university open days. This is the first year in a while that I haven’t undertaken that task myself. My older son is firmly ensconced at art school and the second awaits the...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 8, 2018 | Entertainment, Sport
Monday 23rd June 1986 was a day I remember well. The atmosphere at school was tense. It trembled with rage, disappointment and righteous indignation. It was the day after the England-Argentina match in which Maradona discovered he was channelling God through his fist....
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 30, 2018 | Entertainment, Sport
Wimbledon starts on Monday. Time to dust off that interest in tennis and practise the trickier players’ names, ready to casually drop them into conversation at parties and round the water cooler at work. I loved watching the tennis as a teenager. For quite a while my...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 24, 2018 | Entertainment, Food
Turns out the week just gone was ‘National Picnic Week.’ I didn’t have a picnic. But it’s ok, because that was just a marketing gimmick and there’s plenty of time for picnicking and, unusually for the UK, there’s plenty of good weather in which to do it. Which is all...
