So: after almost twenty months, more Estate Agents than I ever hope to encounter again in the rest of my life, an architect, a team of builders and a deep immersion in the auction houses of London, I am moving into my new house this weekend. The children have already seen it and given it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Best Friend’
Moving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bamboo, Best Friend, Family, Garden Joy, Garden Rage, House, Moving, Old Friend at Work, Parents, Sister on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My Tells
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Best Friend, Lion Hands, Old Friend at Work, Poker Tell, Shark Eyes, Work on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The many Poker players among you will already have scented what my theme is. I have been advised (a number of times) that I have a set of “tells” which announce a set of different emotions on my behalf. I have seen this in others, of course. In Best Friend, it is the planting of [...]
Holiday – Part II: Gay Dads
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Family, Gay Dads, Gifted God Daughter, Longleat, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms, Weston Super Mare, Wookey Hole on August 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Best Friend had to return to London during our holiday for a pitch, meaning that Talented Art Director With Monkey Arms and I were left in charge of the four children (my three and their daughter, Gifted God Daughter). It was a shame that she had to miss out, but it was great to spend [...]
Holiday – Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Family, Holiday, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I shall write in full about the latest holiday with the children and Best Friend and Talented Art Director With Monkey Arms. For the moment, just let me record that it was the most brilliant fun, and that the children seemed to love every second of it: I had been slightly nervous of a week [...]
Schooled by Radio 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BBC Radio 4, Best Friend, Desert Island Discs, Family, Gyles Brandreth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lawrence Dalalg, Music on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ex-Wife is (as predicted) moving in with Man Who Looks Like Steve Buscemi, in North London. The children are staying at their current school, which is good as it’s clear that they don’t need any more disturbance, and she has been diligent about finding a way in which she can get them to and from [...]
War
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Box-TIcking Account Guy, Moscow, Russia, Vaginas, Workshop, World's Greatest P.A. on June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have decided to up my war of passive aggressiveness with Box-Ticking Account Guy. The last victory was a blank refusal to fly Alitalia at something like 4.20am (going, instead, for the LUXURY of BA at 7am) – but it was hard-won. It involved repeated pretences of “Plans Not Finalised” and “Not Sure About the Agenda” [...]
How Word Spreads
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Attractive and Funny PR Woman, Best Friend, Dalston, Gifted God Daughter, Richmond, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fantastic day with Best Friend, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms and Gifted God Daughter – so fantastic that I arrived at 12 noon and left just before 11pm, adding new nuance, richness and meaning to the phrases “Out staying your welcome” and “Shit off back to Richmond, Eiljert, for the love of GOD!”. Gifted [...]
My God Daughter, The Genius
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, God Daughter, Samuel Beckett, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It was Best Friend’s birthday last week, and so she and her husband, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms, invented me and Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend over to lunch. Their house gets more fantastic (in every sense) every time I visit. The pair of them are very creative, but Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms combines [...]
Marmalade Frenzy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Daughter, Family, God Daughter, John Cusack, Madrid, Making Marmalade, Marmalade, Penelope Cruz, Richmond, Seville Oranges, Stoke Newington, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms, Tom Hardy, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on February 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On the weekends when I don’t have my children, and if I’m not bound for Madrid (where Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend) is temporarily based, I prefer to be busy (busy as in “bordering on the “Up phase of a manic-depressive” “), and so I have been looking at ways of doing something that I can devote [...]
Nose to Tail Cookery
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, St. John's on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw Best Friend last week, thank God. She’s one of the few people I always feel better for having seen (and one of the rather greater number whom I always wish I saw more of), and what made it all the more fun was that we ate at St. John’s in the City: the [...]
