by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 2, 2019 | Family, Travel
We’ve had Friends to Stay this weekend. And there’s nothing like having Friends to Stay to learn more about yourself. In that morning before they arrive when you’re urgently attending to the housework you’ll discover just how low your hygiene...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Sep 23, 2018 | Family, Travel
Nobody tells you, when you’re holding your newborn in your arms, that in about seventeen years or so you’ll be screaming, ‘Brake! Yes, now! For Christ’s sake, brake!’ You will scream a lot of other things at them before then, of course. Things like ‘Bloody well tidy...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Sep 2, 2018 | Arts, Stand-up Comedy, Travel
As that well-drawn character of Middle Eastern literature once said, ‘It is finished. This gig is done.’ The Edinburgh Fringe, my first as a performer, is over. And I didn’t die. Not even once. I am very much alive, if rather tired now. The final...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Aug 19, 2018 | Arts, Stand-up Comedy, Travel
Saturday 18th August. DO NOT SMILE AT DOGS ON THE BUS. I’ve learnt so much these past two weeks. ‘Do not smile at dogs on the bus’ is at the top of the list of life lessons. I smiled at a dog sitting across the way from me. It was a good looking...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Aug 12, 2018 | Arts, Travel
Sunday 12th August. Weather: foul and pestilential with persistent rain. I’ve spent the last few days finding things. These are the things I’ve found: A TEAPOT. HURRAH! It was nestling in an unfamiliar cupboard (all the cupboards are unfamiliar when you...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Aug 10, 2018 | Arts, Talking Points, Travel
Wednesday 8th August. They call it ‘Black Wednesday.’ It follows what’s known as ‘Misery Monday’ and ‘Terrible Tuesday’. These are the days when the big acts offer two-for -one tickets to their shows and punters for free shows...
