This week, I have mainly been busy being both married and Irish. Being married is, after all, the greatest accolade for an Irish person. The only thing more acknowledged, more prized than being married would be to be a priest, which I can’t be because (a) I’m a woman and (b) I don’t believe in [...]

Day 3. This is the 3rd day I have woken up married. And it rocks. 2 nights in a hotel in town, pretending we were tourists, before getting the bus home yesterday morning to have breakfast in the ‘hood. Then the dog was dropped home and everything was perfect. I mean, I have loads of [...]

Thanks for all your lovely messages. Of course I was disappointed. It’s not every day you’re up for an Oscar for best editing but, to be honest, I was so sure I wasn’t going to win it, I didn’t even bother going to Hollywood. Why do what everyone else is doing? There are plenty of [...]

Two letters came yesterday. Two letters and a gorgeous bunch of flowers. The flowers were a beautiful mix of roses and tulips – a pre-wedding gift from friends (thanks, John and Neil) – and a joy to behold. They were left on the doorstep in a big box with Interflora on the side and I [...]

What are you wearing? Not in a pervy way – I’m just looking for inspiration. I’m am so over myself in anything I have in my wardrobe that there’s simply nowhere left to turn. Forget Haiti. Forget Chile. Forget Georgia (hello, Happens fans. Petrol). This is nothing short of a full-blown sartorial crisis. But is [...]