I can remember my Nanna buying a new coat and saying with some satisfaction “I think this coat will see me out”. I don’t think she meant out of the front door, I think she meant out of a more permanent door. I was impossibly young at the time and thought it was an embarrassingly…
Month: September 2019
That dress
No, not the black leather barely-held-together-with-safety-pins dress that Liz Hurley wore to upstage Hugh Grant back in the 90s, I’m talking about the current dress sensation. Nearly every time I go out I see a woman wearing the identical long white dress with black polka dots. Unlike Liz’s black leather number, this one couldn’t be…
In retreat
On Monday I retreated. I went on a ‘contemplative day’ based at a religious retreat in London’s East End. What I was doing on a religious retreat when I’m not religious and have very little to retreat from I don’t know. In fact, I was so worried that people might think I had spiritual aspirations…
My twenties replayed
There are definitely aspects of my current life that remind me of my 20s and you may wonder how, considering that I’m decades older, no longer working and not even living in the same country. This is how: I am not looking after young children and therefore am serene and well rested. I am filled…