Edinburgh Girl's blog

Well we are half way through our 40th birthday parties and already I show sign of fatigue - word of advice choose your best friends carefully so you have birthday each month of the year not so you all have a birthday within a month.  Also I have worn the same dress to all the parties so far so now I have dress fatigue as well and will have to find a new dress for the next few parties, which is never as easy feat.

 

I read all the newspaper coverage associated with the new childhood report and it was pretty dire, as usual working women get most of the blame and this makes me so cross.

 

I am loving the £1000 jeans story, and they seem to have a hole in the knee! What I loved most was that at the end of the article I read Browns who are selling them said that they only had two pair left so people are buying them, extraordinary!

Well I guess it always happens this way, we all turn 40 at around  the same time (well i have a couple of years to go but hubby is about to hit the dreaded 40!) and the parties season has just begun.

 

As with when we were all getting married around the same time the dilemma returns, how to make our 40th celebration party a bit better and more memorable that the other 6 parties we will be attending this month!  Difficult but we are applying some thought to the matter - any suggestions post them in the comment box below!

 

I feel so angry at the rise in measles.  I did not want to get my children vaccinated during the height of the MMR scare (which turned out to be completely false) but i did and for one reason only, that I felt a strong social responsibility to try to eradicate the measles so no child in the UK will ever have to suffer brain damage or worse as a result of measles.  Now Measles is rife again because some mothers did not get their children vaccinated. I wonder how they are feeling about that?

 

Are we doing more harm than good wrapping our children in Cotton wool?

We are rearing our children in captivity - their habitat is shrinking almost daily. In 1970 the average nine-year-old girl would have been free to wander 840 metres from her front door. By 1997 it was 280 metres. Now the limit appears to have come down to the front doorstep.

 

Are women still chained to the kitchen sink?

Despite the fact women get better school exam results and are the biggest % of university graduates,  men earn 18% more than women and take 80% of senior company positions.  There are a number of reasons for this, but the biggest I believe is that we are still chained to the kitchen sink and have to take ultimate responsibility for the home and children, which forces us to compromise our work ambitions.

 

As if there were not enough reasons for us to feel inadequate we are now being sold a wonderful new life where the products are part of a whole lifestyle that one can't fail to want, it is so wholesome and scrummy in comparison with my dreary life.

 

Just one look through the Boden catalogue where you can meet Tabitha (favourite day: Tuesday), her gorgeous happy fresh-faced children and their Brown lab Woolfie and you just want her leggy elegance and outdoor free life.

 

Going to Spain for a few days of sunshine and to get rid of my rapidly forming webbed feet with all this rain we have been having. But of course this means getting into the dreaded swimsuit. Luckily i have found an truly amazing swimsuit in TK Max that really does pull everything in, at last no more hiding under my sarong and worrying my boobs are going to pop oh no all held in and supported - fantastic. have fun

Was going great guns today, horsefood and yoghurt for breakfast, an apple for snack, then I spotted them in the cupboard; chocolate digestives so six biccys later I feel slightly nauseous and very cross.  Never mind off to the lovely book festival tonight, the sun is shining and my children are off staying with granny - so pretty close to a perfect evening!