I completely forgot to post up the Day In My Life videos I made; one of them follows an entire day “with baby” and the other one, to offer some contrast, is a work day. And by work, I mean working from my home office, tied to the computer and not even glancing up for about nine…
Dear Apple, I have updated my iPhone and my flashlight, the tool that has seen me through many a complicated Nocturnal iManoeuvre, has disappeared. No longer can I – with one hand and the flick of a finger – do important things such as finding my glass of water without knocking everything off the bedside…
My cousin popped round to see me last week and (after we’d discussed just about everything from nasal hair trimmers and online dating to sofa suppliers and the likelihood of a housing market crash) she piped up with: “What’s happened to the Weekly Window Shop on your website? I enjoyed reading that when I had nothing…
Listen, if you ever come to my house then you’ll be pretty well looked after. I’ll hang a nice dressing gown on the back of the guest room door. You can eat the last of my cereal, drink from my special mug, take the magazine part of the Sunday newspaper before I’ve read it, leaving…
This post is rather niche, so my apologies in advance. If you don’t have a dog then you’ll probably want to simply go no further and – perhaps, if you’re after more reading material – click on over to the new post I’ve written on The Uphill. If you have a dog and you can get it…
This, my friends, is the Buddha Beauty Bowl from Madeleine Shaw’s recipe book, Ready Steady Glow. Not my usual kind of lunch (mainly because it’s not sandwiched inside two enormous chunks of buttered bread or topped with a fat ball of mozzarella) but boy did I enjoy it! Perhaps it was because I cooked it…
I have total brain fry this weekend. I think that trying to find five brilliant bargains for under a fiver (see yesterday’s post) must have exhausted me! But in all seriousness, despite being able to write in reasonably coherent sentences, my grey matter has gone on complete strike. I’ve just spent over an hour writing…
Here’s the vlog I made during my little mini-break with Mr AMR last weekend. Excuse the title, I’ve been trying to utilise that very famous Friends quote for many years and it just seemed to be the right moment. WE WERE ON A BREAK! Ah, how I miss the days of Friends. I still watch the episode with Ross in the…
Something weird happened to me just over a week ago and I wanted to put it out there to see if anyone had ever had a similar experience. This, admittedly, would probably be a post better placed on my baby blog, The Uphill, but that would mean logging out of this admin page and logging…
I’ve finally done my “unboxing” video after keeping my new Chanel bag hidden at the back of the wardrobe since early May. I’ll admit that I’ve been too scared to open the box. Firstly because the bag was so bloody expensive and I find that if I buy something frivolous (doesn’t happen often, actually, and it’s usually…
Look, I know a new shirt isn’t big news, but I have to be honest: not a lot has happened this week. That I want to write about, at any rate. The quick dip into my local H&M was a definite highlight (as was the chocolate and salted caramel milkshake from Five Guys I downed whilst perusing…
I had written a whole essay for today’s post about why I love heatwaves, but when I read it back there were more things I hated about heatwaves than loved about heatwaves, and after an hour or so of late-night editing I just thought CRILLY, what an earth are you gabbling on about? So the essay on…
I’ve bought new bed linen. Because my Kelly Hoppen stuff from QVC was such a success (1000 thread count, brilliant white, no longer in stock) I thought I’d splash out again and go for top quality. The sort of sheets that make you think you’re in a swanky hotel, until you wake up in the…
Last week I stayed over at the London Edition Hotel on Berners Street. I’ve often had meetings at the Berners Tavern, the restaurant on the ground floor of the hotel (an amazingly decadent affair with high ceilings and framed paintings covering every inch of the walls), but I hadn’t ever stayed in one of the…
I’ve had total and utter brain-fry this week. It’s the first time that this has happened to me in a serious way, where I can’t seem form proper sentences or kickstart the creative side of my head, and it has not been fun. Luckily I had my blog posts scheduled, more or less, so I switched off…
It occurred to me, as I was browsing my blog drafts file the other day, that I didn’t ever publish my post on A New Way of Blogging. I wrote it when the baby was only a few weeks old and I was living at my parents’ house temporarily (our renovations were in full swing, our holiday…
If you’re a long-term AMR reader then you might remember the days when the Sunday Tittle Tattle was a random mess of nonsense, spattered with crap pictures and trailing off into a couple of pet photos to keep the animal-lovers satisfied. Things seem to have become more long-winded and wordy recently, but I suppose that the Sunday post is…
I have three things to tell you, which sounds ominous but isn’t at all. The things I want to tell you about are from the boring, administrative side of life, the side of life that involves finding postage stamps and printing off Amazon returns forms and checking whether your direct debit to British Gas is still…