by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Dec 5, 2016 | Family, Talking Points
When people ask me what I ‘do’ I generally tell them that I have a ‘portfolio’ career. By which I mean I do a number of poorly paid jobs with little security and no pension. OK, so I may end up a geriatric bag lady begging outside Subway (hold the red onion) but there...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Nov 13, 2016 | Family, Talking Points
The pants I am wearing right now are black and lacy, designed by High Street guru, Mary Portas. I paid £15 for them. (That is our little secret, ok?) This pair, worn twice now, has two large holes in the frontal area. They are not there by design, at least, not by...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Nov 6, 2016 | Family
When Hamlet moaned about sorrows coming ‘not single spies, but in battalions’ I think he’d probably had the sort of week I had recently. Friday evening began well; the table set for eight, a five course meal at varying stages of preparation, a bottle of non vintage...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Oct 20, 2016 | Family
At the weekend, a post-menopausal friend suddenly dived, mid-conversation, into her handbag, exclaiming, “I’ve got something for you!” How lovely, I thought. A girlfriend gift for no reason! I wondered what it might be. A tube of hand cream? Bag of salted caramel...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Aug 31, 2016 | Family, Food
The home page of today’s Daily Mail online has stark news for its readers. Brits are over-baking their cream horns by up to ten minutes. It’s Bake Off season! Which is why cream horns have made it to the top of the agenda. What has happened in the world of baking is...
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...
