Parenting

The joy of boys!

The joy of boys!

AS a mum of three boys I’m occasionally (quite often) asked if I hanker after a wee girl. I don’t. But I get funny looks if I say this too quickly - like it’s odd a woman wouldn’t desire a daughter. I get it - some have a deep longing for a girl. I’ve heard stories of...

Matters Of The Heart

There’s always tomorrow

There’s always tomorrow

When I popped in to see a friend this week for coffee while working in Glasgow, another of her pals was there.  She’d made the most delicious lemon drizzle cake and I had two giant slices - the first thing I’d eaten that day and it went downhill from there with a pork...

Reviews

Review: K West Spa, Shepherd’s Bush, London

Review: K West Spa, Shepherd’s Bush, London

I’ve just had the Siberian Petals Facial at K West and if I was a cat, I’d be purring. Here’s why... First Impressions In the lift on the way down to the spa, a lady told me she’d tried a good few spas but kept coming back to K West because the treatments are...

Fiction

Sidebar of Shame by Martel Maxwell

Sidebar of Shame by Martel Maxwell The following short story was published in Belinda Jones’ Sunlounger, a collection of 44 stories by leading women’s fiction writers.