by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Sep 10, 2017 | Family, Talking Points
Walking into the large shopping mall near the offices where I work, I was overwhelmed by a new scent… the smell of bergamot, geranium, soapy nipples and foaming navels. Lush, the handmade cosmetics store, has arrived with its top notes of lemon, apple pulp and ylang...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 23, 2017 | Family, Fashion
My wedding anniversary is coming up. I have my eye on an unnecessarily expensive handbag which is going to subliminally inform the world that I am a grown up, sophisticated woman who knows her Hermes Birkin from her Chanel Flap Bag. It’s possible that it will also...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 16, 2017 | Family, Food
When the film ‘Nine and a Half Weeks’ came out in 1986 I was very taken with that iconic kitchen scene. Wow! All that fresh stuff in that clean fridge! A turn-on in itself. Strawberries and cherries beautifully ripe! Chilled wine and a perfectly set jelly!...
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...
