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Need some holiday reading ideas...?
Posted on 08 Jul 2011
...then look no further than Red's Top Ten Beach Reads . Pick your favourites from a stellar list including Siri Hustvedt's deceptively slim The Summer Without Men and Anne Patchett's latest,...
Posted on 25 Jun 2011
Last week I was on the Vanessa Show on Channel 5 with the lovely Adele Parks . We were meant to be debating the concept of Fr-amily ie whether friends are the new family. I was saying we create...
Posted on 22 Jun 2011
That was the question we set out to answer last night at the Red Network event on Finding Your Passion (and making it pay) at London's Hospital Club. For the first time, instead of asking the...
Fancy a snoop around my house? PLUS Event...
Posted on 07 Jun 2011
Well, here's your chance - in the new issue of Red (july), on sale now, I subject myself to the This Life slot. And, honestly, I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I am full of...
What a week!
Posted on 13 Sep 2009
Not sure what's going on with the planets this week (not that I believe all that, of course, but if I did, apparently Mercury's in retrograde - again!!), anyway, whatever the cause, it's been crazy. On Tuesday morning the piece I'd written for The Times about the transition from every other weekend stepmother to a full-time one came out in T2 and got an amazing response. If you missed it, here's the link.
Also on Tuesday was the mumsnet webchat I've been looking forward to. Mumsnet's a great site with lots of brilliant forums about all things related to being a mum, and their step-parenting forum is one of the few with a Brit focus. I can't say all the regular mumsnetters were glad to see me, but you can't please all of the people... Anyway, I'm not an expert, just a stepmum with an experience to share and a point of view, so it was good to meet other stepmums in a similar situation and hear about their experiences.
And on Wednesday, the October issue of Red came out, featuring the stepmothers' support group I told you about a couple of weeks ago. I'll put the link up shortly in case you haven't seen it. So watch this space.