by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 29, 2018 | Nature, Talking Points
I’m looking at the weather forecast for the next few days. There’s more rain on the way and yet another Met Office weather warning in place. One of the reasons I detest bad weather is because there is nobody to write and complain to. When, as now, things are...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 22, 2018 | Food, Talking Points
Remind me in twenty minutes that I have a cake in the oven. It’s a parsnip and maple cake, described by BBC Good Food as ‘easy.’ I’ve made it for my friend’s birthday dinner. It wasn’t ‘easy.’ It was stressful and time...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Mar 11, 2018 | Family, Talking Points
It’s Mother’s Day. And it’s my first Mother’s Day without a mother. Generally I would have spent the week leading up to today scouring the shops for pretty things; sparkly things with glitter, glittery things with sparkles. My mum died last summer, a few days before...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 11, 2018 | Talking Points
In the post today I received an invitation to give blood, a new watch strap ordered from an online retailer, and the details of a firm which could help if I were having any damp problems. (I only get damp problems when I watch Top Gun.) Since I got into online...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 4, 2018 | Talking Points
Anybody who knows me knows there is nothing I value more than a reliable flush. Which is why I am in a permanent state of horror about the state of public loos in this, the world’s sixth richest country. In 1984 I went to Cologne on a German study trip. What an eye...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Dec 24, 2017 | Family, Talking Points
Last week I wrote about ‘cheery receptacles’ and their role in my childhood Christmases. Later, in the bath, it struck me that ‘receptacles’ made it sound as though my home was a depository for redundant kidney dishes and medical waste. It’s not. But I am a big fan of...
