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The Park Club
17th November 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
I never leave the house during the week, except to go to a lovely Thai Restaurant, called the Somtam for lunch on the Askew Road. I also pick up and drop off the children at their school. I do all my shopping online and venture forth occasionally to see a local hairdresser. This life suits me, as I’m a writer, and quite enjoy the peace and quiet.
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Review: The Ultimate Skin Perfecting Treatment
23rd June 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
It’s scary in the summertime when you happen to look in the mirror and catch your face in the unforgiving light. Up close and personal all the blemishes: stray hairs, sun spots and enlarged pores are magnified, so that the face looks freakish and horrible. I also have problems with thread veins around my nose, caused by a really unprofessional facial I had a few years ago and a couple...
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Chi Yu Wellness Centre
26th February 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The Chi Yu Wellness Centre in George Street, London, is a pleasure to visit. It opened six months ago. The first time I arrived feeling blocked and stiff and Mami Tsang the owner, gave me an integrated treatment combining a few different therapies, such as reflexology, remedial massage and acupressure. I came out dancing. A couple of weeks ago I returned for her chidoriya facial, which is exclusive to the... -
Marital Sex
27th January 2010 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
I am thinking about sex. I share a study with my husband, and he is sitting opposite me wearing a black beany hat, that is pointing up. He looks like an ageing gnome. It’s not a sexy look and its not why I am thinking about sex. Last night we watched The History of Violence. In one scene Maria Bello, dresses up as a cheerleader, to excite her husband and... -
The Paper Boat
1st December 2009 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
The judges of One Minute to Save the World, have chosen my favourite short film as the overall winner – The Paper Boat. The films had to be one minute long and the idea was initially proposed by Wecan (Climate Action Now) of which I am a founding member. The paper boat is a really poignant film showing a little boy moving a paper boat through the sky and dragging... -
Review: Who is Tim Minchin?
27th October 2009 | 3 comments | 2 people like this
Tim Minchin: I hadn’t heard of him, but then I’m not that up in the comedian world. I recognized him though. Caroline Chigwell a mother at the children’s school is his agent, and got me some tickets for the sell out gig at the Apollo on Sunday. He was playing in front of an audience of three and a half thousand, and the atmosphere pulsed. Caroline tells me that last...
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Ideas for cramped London Children
14th October 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
For five years our weekends and most holidays were spent at a tiny rented coastguard cottage on the Solent. It was in a row of ten, with shared gardens, and neighbours with petty issues, but it was amazing to be by the sea. Having said that there were long expanses in the mid winter when we simply didn’t use it. We couldn’t face the drive, the weather, the wind and... -
The Seven Year Itch
18th September 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
It was about six months after my seventh wedding anniversary, when I became aware that I was finding random men attractive. I was interested in nearly every man I met, including my son’s gay headmaster. Before marriage I had been very discerning, but after seven years of marriage it was a different story.
What was going on? Perhaps it was because my children were out of nappies and I no longer... -
THE BIG IF
8th September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Yesterday I joined the Big If campaign by making a video for Greenpeace. Four of us founder members of Wecan and some of our children, pledged to have a protest picnic on Ed Millibands doorstep, if the government goes ahead with plans for a new coal power station at Kingsnorth. We were going to pledge to have a picnic every week until he’s no longer in office, but couldn’t quite...
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We laughed until we cried watching the BBC Orchestra
19th August 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
After ten years of marriage, life together, particularly with children, can seem a little routine and mundane. My husband and I occasionally have lunch, but we end up discussing plans or change of plans. Once to my horror, I realized we were scheduling operations – him something to do with his knee, me a hernia. It was deeply depressing.
We haven’t spent a night alone for about two years. We are...
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Kate Morris
Kate Morris is a freelance writer, author of two novels and mother of two children, Jude 9 and Belle 6. The Seven Year Itch was published by Penguin in 2009. Kate writes a marriage column for the Life Section in the Times on Mondays and her third novel, Seven Summer Days, is due to be published next year.
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