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The Easter Egg Hunt

Monday 1st March 2010

HMMs don’t tend to see the value in living vicariously through others. We’re always amazed when others say “Oh, I couldn’t possibly justify the Louboutins but how exciting if you buy them! Now I can live vicariously through you!” What, I might ask you, is the point of that? If something...

Children's Skiwear

Monday 1st February 2010

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow – or so the song goes. I say: let it go, let it go, let it go. Away! Pretty though it may be, snow, in a day-today sense, is highly inconvenient and has nearly been the undoing of my recently Botoxed face...

Thank You Cards

Friday 1st January 2010

The festive season is over for another year and HMMs everywhere will be congratulating themselves on having made it through the madness with customary fabulousness – for having given the most tasteful, well-chosen gifts, for having hosted the cosiest yet most glamorous get-togethers and for having had on hand a constant...

Entertaining Little Ones...

Thursday 3rd December 2009

HMMs love many things about December but, truth be told, it does have its downsides. Having to resist all of the excesses of the season is difficult enough; having to resist the urge to tell the in-laws (honestly, do they have to come - and stay - for quite so long?)...

The Advent of Christmas Madness

Sunday 1st November 2009

Much as any HMM regards the passing of the year with some trepidation – after all, the next one is going to bring yet another birthday and another two Hermes price increases – that’s still no reason to live in denial about the approach of the New Year and, more importantly,...

The New Arrival

Thursday 1st October 2009

Coming home after the birth of our fourth child has been an experience, to say the least. Bronte and Ned are surely going to kill her with love, while Matilda is more likely to just, well, kill her. I can’t say I blame her, since being usurped is never easy (the...

Haute Hospital

Tuesday 1st September 2009

Like all HMMs, my social calendar is always crammed with engagements and appointments, each and every one of which needs to be prepared for with the requisite degree of wardrobe-aforethought. And the birth of High Maintenance Child Number 4, due to take place via scheduled C-section next month, is no exception....

Back to School...At Last

Friday 31st July 2009

It’s never too early to start thinking about the beginning of the new term – especially when one’s nerves are starting to feel ever so slightly jangly at the thought of the remaining weeks of summer holiday. Not only is darling Rupert once more desk-bound after our Cornish break but I...

Holiday Essentials

Wednesday 1st July 2009

With Trimester 2 just peeping over the pregnancy horizon, exhausted doesn’t even begin to describe how I’m feeling – so a break is definitely in order. I’ve no doubt it’s just what the doctor ordered for my darling Rupert, too – the long hours he’s been putting in (the recession has...

Child's Play

Monday 1st June 2009

If women are a competitive breed (they are), then HMMs are the Olympians to everyone else’s high-school athletes: winning is everything. Which is actually rather fun if, like me, you’re usually the gold medallist. You see, being the Queen Bee has always come quite naturally to me. Where I...

A Bun in the Oven

Friday 1st May 2009

I may have scoffed (in the most ladylike sense of the word, you understand) more than one or two hot cross buns and organic chocolate eggs over the Easter break but not to the extent that my J Brands should be feeling ever so slightly more snug than usual – we...

A Very Civilised Easter Egg Hunt...

Wednesday 1st April 2009

Garden party season is almost upon us and I for one can’t wait – I’m just dying to give my new Saloni dress its first airing - but what better way for HMMs to warm up their Springtime hostessing skills than by throwing an Easter party for the children? While...

With Lots of Love

Monday 2nd March 2009

Buoyed up by the success of last month's love-themed craft and play, the au pair suggested the other day that she keep the children in their current creative vein by getting them to make gifts for me, for Mother's Day. I was momentarily warmed by her thoughtfulness until she made the...

Warm & Fuzzy

Sunday 1st February 2009

Oh, this interminable winter. It really has taken its toll, not only on my complexion, but on my patience with the children. Having them underfoot all day is just not acceptable – and nor is the au pair’s lack of enthusiasm in taking them outside for more than a few hours...

Beating The Bulge...

Saturday 27th December 2008

Like most HMMs, I usually start the year full of vim and vigour, with a determination to make the coming 12 months even more fabulous than the ones just gone. To this end, words of sweet encouragement are offered to darling husband to ensure job is kept, and thinly-veiled threats are...

'Tis The Season To Shop...

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

What HMM could fail to love the festive season? Oh yes, I know there’s the occasional tedious relative to deal with, but this is just a teeny tiny thing compared to endless opportunities for spending money, wearing frocks, drinking fine wines and being lavished with gifts – honestly, the month of...

The Interior Designer Within...

Friday 31st October 2008

I couldn't call myself a bona fide bankers wife if I hadn’t ever considered a career in interior design. I mean, it’s practically de rigeur for us HMMs to toy with the idea of imparting our innate sense of style to others. One glance at my jam-packed schedule explains why I’ve never...

Indulgence & Decadence for The HMM...

Wednesday 1st October 2008

The Ocado van came this morning bearing various goodies and now, at 11am, I’m on my third Duchy shortbread. Such indulgence! Such decadence! And no beseeching brown eyes (or tantrums) begging me for just one more. As heavenly as it would be to scoff the lot before the little darlings...

Back To School...

Monday 1st September 2008

As I sit here this evening, stitching little labels into small jumpers and tiny shirts, I suspect that I resemble a character from that favourite fairytale - The Elves and the shoemaker (a very glamorous and impeccably well groomed character, clearly). Yes the school term is upon us, the nanny...

Little Birthdays...

Friday 1st August 2008

In my neck of the woods, children's birthday parties are all about months of planning and serious oneupmanship (amongst the mothers that is - the little darlings would be just as happy with iced gems as they would be organic veggie sticks). The truth is, it couldn't be easier;...

The Holidays: An Expansive Abyss...

Tuesday 1st July 2008

The school holidays are almost upon us (err - hurrah?). I’m once again faced with the daunting prospect of occupying my poppets for the next ten weeks (OHMYGOD!!!) once their expensive independent schools have slammed their doors shut behind them. Scrutinising my super efficient family calendar (an absolute must...

Yummy Mummy Swimwear

Thursday 5th June 2008

I’m delighted to report that my diet and fitness regime has been a complete success and without so much as a gastric band (gasp!), I have managed to shed my excess seven ounces. I am, once more, toned and pert, in short, beach body perfect (well almost). I passionately...

Little Attire...

Tuesday 6th May 2008

I’m currently on a carbohydrate free/alcohol free diet (OMG how dull am I) in an effort to perfect my figure prior to the summer swimwear fest. Until I’m once again beach body perfect, I shall be avoiding the purchase of any further garments for myself (sigh), and instead turning my...

Fruitful Shopping

Thursday 3rd April 2008

Shopping online is, in my opinion, the only way to ponder over any purchase whilst gravid. Tottering about from boutique to tea shop, balanced precariously on high heels, a tote on ones shoulder the weight of a young teenager, may well result in swollen legs, bloated feet, tumescent toes and...

Roadworthy Baby Vehicles

Sunday 2nd March 2008

The new “08”car registration plates have just been issued so my husband is off to collect his new vehicle – he is a man obsessed. In the past, I too have been pre-occupied by the quest to acquire “the right” set of wheels; I love nothing more than scrutinising...

Mummy's Treasure Chest

Friday 1st February 2008

I adore selecting the perfect gifts for Valentine’s Day. I have yet to be disappointed by the lingerie that hubby purchases for me (yes I provide him with enormous hints and ensure that he knows the correct size) because he genuinely has the best taste (of course he does, I’ve spent...

Changing Bags – That needn’t let the side down

Friday 4th January 2008

I’ve always been partial to splashing out on great accessories. A girl can be full-term and positively portly but still carry off a super status bag! A simple outfit can become a complete wow when a lady totes the right arm candy (and I don’t mean a pooch or...

Avoiding Stressful Situations...

Monday 3rd December 2007

A piece of advice from the childcare experts that I whole heartedly agree with is that if parents want to maintain their sanity, they should avoid taking little people into unnecessarily stressful situations, ie the annual Christmas shopping crush fest! Yesterday a great friend and I took our respective men and poppets...

A Girl's Night In

Wednesday 21st November 2007

Month by month, Bea will be featuring everything from the best baby changing bags that won’t let the side down to must have buggies that'll ensure supremacy at the school gates as well as a whole host of Yummy Mummy treats because ‘Becoming a mummy doesn’t mean one loses the will...

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