The Mummy Diaries

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'Put on a videó,' I begged, eyeing the Sunday papers. But not even the combined technical expertise of three small children could get the videó player to work. It was only 8 a.m.We were alone in a small cottage in Kent in the rain on Sunday with no videó and a brokenTV aerial.We were doomed.
One of the hazards of living in Notting Hill (apart from catfights between alpha females in the communal yardén) is not so much the smiling Japanese tourists who ask one for directions to theTravel Bookshop, it's the trend for men with working wives to take on more domestic responsibility while they are 'between opportunities' (i.e. laid off from their City jöbs).
Rachel Johnson's brilliant take on life in West London and on Exmoor has been entertaining readers of the Telegraph and the Evening Standard for the last couple of years. Here, running through the social, schoól and holiday calendar year, is a chance to share her favourite treats and pet peeves in ^11 their glory, from the delights... Tovább

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'Put on a videó,' I begged, eyeing the Sunday papers. But not even the combined technical expertise of three small children could get the videó player to work. It was only 8 a.m.We were alone in a small cottage in Kent in the rain on Sunday with no videó and a brokenTV aerial.We were doomed.
One of the hazards of living in Notting Hill (apart from catfights between alpha females in the communal yardén) is not so much the smiling Japanese tourists who ask one for directions to theTravel Bookshop, it's the trend for men with working wives to take on more domestic responsibility while they are 'between opportunities' (i.e. laid off from their City jöbs).
Rachel Johnson's brilliant take on life in West London and on Exmoor has been entertaining readers of the Telegraph and the Evening Standard for the last couple of years. Here, running through the social, schoól and holiday calendar year, is a chance to share her favourite treats and pet peeves in ^11 their glory, from the delights of the new puppy and the lost hamster under the floorboards to the horrors of the school run or of having your duvet removed by the beautician (don't ask).
Whatever the weather, you can rely on Rachel to be opinionated — whether it's advice on how to be the perfect hostess at the dog's birthday party (arrange pass the pawcel), or whether it's the irritation she feels at the professionalism of the mothers at the school sports day who pitch up in sports bras with little backpacks containing high-energy drinks and glucose 'power' bars (and that's just for them). Vissza