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I’ve been thinking lately about the incredibly radical changes that we’ve all got accustomed to over the last five months. Social-distancing, masks, designated shopping days, hand sanitiser in every doorway, online meetings, happy hour on Zoom, cont...

Last week Belle turned 10 and we celebrated with the now customary combination of pug-related gifts and cheesy crackers. There was also a stuffed llama, marshmallows and a Shirley Temple. She is easy to please although we all know if she was given ...

Post-Cup Match blues anyone?! Who doesn’t love a four-day weekend? It’s so nice to have the extra days to unwind. While I’m pretty sure that a four-day weekend would be a good long-term strategy for our mental health, it might not work the same for ...

Almost every parent I’ve ever met has been united by some common themes: total exhaustion, addiction to caffeine, wide-eyed bewilderment (how can something so small poop so much?). Yet, even if we’re hanging on to our sanity by a thread, it’s a golde...

Well ... school’s out and the children practically made a bonfire out of their uniform in celebration. We were barely out of the school gates before the shoes came off and the hair came down. I was shown approximately ten thousand bits of artwork wh...

I’m sitting at the dining room table trying to write this while Belle plays opposite me. She made edible slime at summer camp and I’m trying to talk her out of ingesting a large dose of Kool-Aid and Red 40. She also has three pots of glitter, some w...

Feeding children is a minefield. Mainly because we give them “children’s food” rather than just “food” in general. Do you ever wonder if cave babies rejected the sustenance their parents dragged in? I doubt there were many fussy eaters in our hunter...

I am sure you have all heard the recent statistic that 74.6 per cent of our population is overweight or obese. That has major implications when it comes to the risk of disease, quality of life and the viability of health insurance benefits. Althoug...

Last week, Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief at The Huffington Post, landed on our pink sandy shores. She spoke to a packed ballroom at the Fairmont Southampton about her latest book, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and...

Hop hop, here comes the Easter Bunny! With a basket of eggs and a bag full of Peeps, he has already made his delivery to the pharmacy. A walk through Phoenix brought me out in a cold sweat this morning. I went in for eye make-up remover but almost le...