January - February 2010 | Through the Looking Glass
My husband and I have jobs we love but that can be stressful at times. After a particularly busy and pressure-filled day at our respective offices, we went to see The Hangover, a movie that had been recommended by all of our friends who’d seen it.
As is our usual M.O., when we are catching up, […]
If you have a lovely home to share, then this may be of interest: the ‘this is my Habitat’ competition is inviting people across the UK to take their cameras and show them what makes their house a home.
Helena Christensen, who fronts Habitat’s ‘this is my Habitat’ campaign will choose the overall winner with a […]
One of the most amazing experiences that I was fortunate to have this summer was my Dolphin Encounter at Sea Life Park in Oahu, Hawaii. I have always been fascinated with dolphins’ intelligence and grace. This was my first opportunity to get up close and personal with one of these incredible creatures.
Upon arriving in Oahu, […]
My daughter missed her best friend’s fourth birthday party. She didn’t miss it because we had a scheduling conflict. She didn’t miss it because she was sick. She missed it because we took a last minute trip down to Cape Cod to escape the heat and neither my husband nor I checked our family wall […]
If you have children or grandchildren, you probably know about Center Parcs. It’s the holiday place where you have a cabin in the forest and travel by bicycle to the main indoor area, which contains a gigantic pool complex. The various pools, indoors and outdoors; slides and flumes; heated and bubbly; with or without waves, […]
Things are a bit chaotic at my house these days, because we’ve just added a new puppy and a foster dog to the pair of pooches we already had. In preparation, I began researching dog trainers in my area, because my younger dog, Cleo, has a barking habit, and because I wanted to make sure […]
Jamie Oliver (our Man of the Moment in December 2008) has just launched his latest project Recipease here in the UK. Recipease is a new food and kitchen shop where you can learn to cook and make great food. You can book a lesson to come into the shop and make a meal in around 10 minutes (they have all the ingredients ready and waiting), buy freshly made food, or attend one of the longer classes to learn more about cooking. The goal is to open various food and kitchen emporiums around the UK, with the first opening on February 26th in Clapham Junction.
Is it just me, or is 2009 already running away with you too? It’s hard to believe that the Christmas hols are over, the New Years Eve party is all but a distant memory (for more reasons than one) and January is pretty much done and dusted. Hmmmm… Do you think it’s an age thing or is time […]
I’m somewhat hard-pressed to say what “it” is that snuck up on me again this year. Guilt? Exasperation? An elusive and loosely defined sentimentality based more on habit and cultural influence more than anything else? Once again, like so many others, I have found myself frustrated and resentful at the commercial inundation to Buy! Buy! […]
Christmas Past
As a young mum I remember Christmases where all the family came for the day and the days and weeks before were spent shopping for mountains of food. The house was full of grandparents, children and pets and bin liners full of wrapping paper were stored in the garage until they could be disposed […]
It was a classic problem, dishwasher’s not running properly, call the repair man. I was sure the machine was defective, or perhpas that pipes weren’t properly connecting, causing one in four loads to end up with standing water after the cycle was complete. You can imagine my embarrasment when I learned that the dishwasher was […]
When I was a teacher it soon became obvious that children who were unhappy were less able to learn. If a child was going through a trauma such as grieving or going through an unfriendly parental separation they would be unable to concentrate. Although this may seem blatantly obvious, it is often not obvious to […]
Sometimes the anomalies in life just hit me. We’ve been struggling with the rampant growth of greenery (for greenery read weeds) in our garden this year. Everything is so green and lush. I have spent hours losing the battle to clear the bindweed, dandelions, nettles and horses tail from the ground, at the same time […]
Lynn Biederman is the co-author of Unraveling, which was reviewed in our July, 2008 issue. She recently took a few moments to jot down some of her thoughts for us, and here’s what she had to say:
* * * * *At the ripe age of 45, I’m going through some virgin moments: My first novel, […]
My husband and I are hosting a Japanese exchange student for three weeks this summer. It’s our first time, our trial run before considering hosting a student for an entire school year. Our student is a teenage girl from Tokyo. As a childless couple, we’d spent a fair amount of time before […]
We have just spent a week at Selsey Bill, which is on a peninsular on the South coast of England. The house we rented sat at the water’s edge (literally) and the spray from the sea made the windows misty white with deposited salt. In the water directly ahead of us was a post to […]
Amanda Palmer is probably best known as the singer/songwriter of the Dresden Dolls, but she's more than just a fantastic singer.
Gregory is a musician, songwriter, and producer born in London, England to a musical family.
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