Month: August, 2010

In a nutshell

I’m excited to have been asked to contribute to a book, ‘What I Wish I Knew about Cancer’, part of a series of books in which our older selves give advice to our younger selves. There’s a whole raft of them, covering all sorts of topics – love, motherhood, and one I’m looking forward to [...]

I’ve been shopping

Look what I bought.

Look what I did with it.

This is the first time I have brushed my hair since December 2008, when I had it cut short in preparation for chemotherapy.
Not that I’m a slattern when it comes to haircare, you understand, it’s just that up until now a quick comb through with my fingers [...]

Bah! BBB – ‘I Think I Love You’ by Allison Pearson

Today, my lovely readers, I have a hardback copy of ‘I Think I Love You’ by Allison Pearson to give away to someone in need of a good book.

You may remember Allison’s previous novel, ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’, the story of a mother trying to do everything, with consequences that made me [...]