16 April 2013
Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is known the world over, but mainly for that very smart T-junction where Rodeo Drive ends across the road from the imposing Beverly Wilshire hotel – immortalised in the 1990 movie Pretty Woman, starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. But, like several other east-west LA arteries – Beverly, Sunset, Olympic, Pico, [...]
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18 February 2013
It’s sods law, or is that Murphy’s law, oh whatever – I’m sure you know what I mean – in that just as I start to get that pregnancy bloom I am entering the most uncomfortable phase of pregnancy. At 28 weeks I’m obviously pregnant now, thanks to a rather large bump (I’m sure it’s much [...]
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11 December 2012
In five days time I will be married. I’m not scared, I’m not sad, I’m not even amazingly excited. Because it feels like the most natural thing in the world to do. Not that I’ve actually been single for a few years now, officially Andrew and I became a couple in January 2007, although it’s a [...]
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29 November 2012
We have just over two weeks till our wedding, and I’m now 17 weeks pregnant. That’s stress enough, but I’ve decided to add whole new level of worry to my pregnancy; career panic. After writing my blog on the vanishing woman, I had a number of emails from other women who’d experienced the same thing. Once [...]
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15 November 2012
I love my exercise I really do – as you may have guessed. For the first 12 weeks I managed – around bouts of morning sickness – to fit in a fairly respectable regime. This included 5km cycles on the static bike, or 15 minutes on the spinning bike followed by weights, or 20 minute runs [...]
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05 November 2012
I was totting up the number of websites I’ve worked for since 1999, and it works out at the grand total of 12, that’s doesn’t include the various websites I’ve freelanced for over the years. That’s an awful lot of websites, and a lot of experience, and while it makes me feel quite I also feel [...]
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05 November 2012
I’m pregnant – 13 weeks and a day, according to the dating scan we had last week. Baby Soames (no 2) is fine, and growing nicely with two arms two legs and head and the works, thank God and praise be! If I sound a little clinical then maybe it’s because the joy at finding out [...]
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25 October 2012
I’ve always believed you are as old as you feel i.e age is all in the mind. It wasn’t until I returned back to the ‘workplace’ (an office with other human beings in) I acknowledged that I was actually a little tiny bit older than the people I was working with. But it wasn’t because I was [...]
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23 October 2012
Another day, another article about how boring motherhood is. Admittedly the writer of the most recent article (published in Grazia today) has a book called ‘Why have kids’ to flog sell. In my view, Jessica Valenti (who calls herself a ‘feminist’) appears to want to deny other women the right to enjoy the fulfillment that motherhood [...]
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19 September 2012
One of the great myths about LA is that everyone has a pool. It’s really not true. When I was house-hunting, we found about one place in four had a pool in the back garden – or back yard as they self-deprecatingly call the expanse behind the house, whether it is a muddy postage stamp or [...]
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