by Fortysomething Fan Girl | May 20, 2018 | Entertainment, Talking Points
It won’t have escaped your notice that there was a quite a high profile wedding this weekend. Amid high security and watched by a live crowd of thousands sweating fervently in the streets of Windsor, (honestly when is it EVER 22C in May?) two people vowed to spend the...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 25, 2018 | Entertainment, Sport
A couple of weeks ago, the rugby commentator Ian Robertson announced that he is retiring. News like this would not normally prompt so much as a shrug from me. Murray Walker, John Motson, John McCririck all left our TV screens and their absence has not touched me. But...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Oct 28, 2017 | Entertainment, Family, Food
Halloween in the twenty-first century is how I know I am not a genuinely modern person. I am a twentieth century person in disguise. Yes, I love some of the innovations of this millennium. Park Assist is just great, Netflix has changed my life and I’m genuinely...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Oct 1, 2017 | Arts, Entertainment
Back in 1980 I was gripped by the Men’s Singles Final at Wimbledon. The match was between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe and is often described as the greatest ever played. McEnroe, the twenty-one year old ‘enfant terrible’ lost to the good-looking,...
