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English Mum |
Mar 1st, 2012
Tesco’s new price drop: vote with your keyboard.
Read any self-respecting food blogger’s posts and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the only things in our supermarket trolleys are stuff like truffle oil, organic this, free-range that, puy lentils and 90% dark chocolate.
Of course I’d love to tell you that’s true, but the reality is that my teenagers hit the kitchen like a plague of locusts every evening after school and yes, I’m...
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English Mum |
Nov 8th, 2011
The murder of Billy Dove
On Saturday night, well, early Sunday morning, when many people were enjoying the aftermath of bonfire parties or, like me, were safely tucked up in bed after lovely evenings with their families, 21 year old Billy Dove was stabbed in Hemel Hempstead town centre. Obviously I can’t speculate as to the circumstances, but the end result was tragic: Billy died.
As the parent of teenagers, this terrifies...
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English Mum |
Sep 19th, 2011
The Channel 4 Paralympic Games website – get your tickets now!
As you know, we recently visited the site of the impending London 2012 Olympics. It’s going to be an amazing time for London, and we mustn’t forget that the Paralympics are on their way as well. (I live quite near Stoke Mandeville, the ‘home’ of the Paralympics, so I’m a massive fan – I think it’s completely inspiring and amazing. )
The lovely chaps at Channel 4...
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English Mum |
Aug 21st, 2011
Time to buy a house? Or time to run away screaming…?
So back here in the UK, we’re squatting, somewhat ridiculously, in my Mum’s house. All our stuff’s in storage (even the beloved KitchenAid), even then it’s a bit of a squeeze and the Ninja Cat of Death is living an uncomfortable truce with Ellie the labrador and fending off amorous advances from Harry the ‘ginger t*sser’ (I know it’s mean, but it’s his name...
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English Mum |
Jul 23rd, 2011
Amy Winehouse, dead at 27. Somebody’s daughter, remember?
A long time ago, back in 2007 in fact, an Irish model – Katie French – died of a drug overdose. I found some of the comments made at the time pretty abhorrent and remember writing a blog post about it.
Yesterday, over 90 people, many of them teenagers, were murdered by a madman in Norway.
This afternoon I watched Twitter in horror as first people near her home tweeted about seeing ambulances and...
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English Mum |
May 25th, 2011
Michelle Obama’s speech at Oxford University: inspirational.
I think I’ve got a bit of a crush on Michelle Obama (ahem, a totally girly non-pervy one).
Her speech to schoolgirls visiting Oxford University this afternoon was amazing: incredibly inspiring and uplifting.
I bet every mother of young women would pay a fortune to have their daughter in that room and be inspired by that speech.
On education: ‘Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t be afraid...
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English Mum |
Apr 29th, 2011
Congratulations William and Catherine!
Check out my Union Jack biscuits on Ready for Ten
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English Mum |
Jan 25th, 2011
Andy Gray, Sky Sports, sexism and teenage boys
This afternoon, Andy Gray, the Sky Sports football presenter was sacked after ‘new evidence of unacceptable and offensive behaviour’ came to light.
If you’ve been living in a small shoebox in the cupboard under the stairs for the past week, I’ll bring you up to speed: during Sky’s Sunday match, Gray and his co-presenter Richard Keys were recorded off-air making offensive comments...
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