ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: How I finally learned the real story of my stepchildren ⊕
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ALEXANDRA
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2 days ago
I absolutely love my stepchildren but they had a tough childhood, as anyone who reads Things In Every Room by their half-sister Helen Longstreth will discover.
23 days ago
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Beware the new rip-off trade in toothcare. A dentist tried to charge me £50,000 for this minor problem (which cleared up on its own). Here's new tricks and tactics to watch out for ⊕
All my life I've pretty well ignored my dentist's recommendations and, without wishing to tempt fate, my teeth are in relatively good nick.
30 days ago
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: I tried everything to cure my insomnia - the only thing that worked was this incredibly simple retro hack ○
Sleep has abandoned me. I conk out instantly I hit the pillow only to wake around 3am, unable to sleep again before the advent of the dawn chorus. A good night will be five hours of shut-eye.
37 days ago
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: My mother died nine days ago and people keep making this infuriating comment. It's so common to say to those who are grieving - but it only makes them resent you ⊖⊖
I've realised how difficult it is to respond to someone who is immersed in grief. Our emotions are either so raw or stunned in the immediate aftermath of death that our reactions are unpredictable.
51 days ago
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Fat jabs don't look so clever now they're mundane ⊕
No surprises from the latest fat jab survey: it reveals that the majority of weight-loss drugs are being bought by middle-class women aged between 30-49.
59 days ago
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Keeping our hands off a friend's ex? No chance! ⊕
Gordon Ramsay has let slip that he 'stole' his wife Tana from a friend when they met back in the early Nineties. In the big scheme of things, this doesn't shock me at all.
66 days ago
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: The key to a productive day? Staying in bed till 11 ○
I've had a Damascene conversion: the secret to getting things done is, in fact, to stay in bed.
72 days ago
They're far worse than mice, chew electrical wiring, smell awful and you can't exterminate them... how I discovered the new breed of vermin that's terrorising thousands - and this is the area worst affected: ALEXANDRA SHULMAN ⊖
I was moaning to a friend about a mouse I'd discovered running around the kitchen. He had little sympathy. 'At least you don't have glis glis,' was his dismissive response.
86 days ago
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Lines don't matter to a raw beauty like Rachel Ward ○
In the post she is wearing steel-rimmed specs, her neck and décolletage are mottled and her cropped hair is silver. She looks her 68 years and the comments the post triggered are brutal.
3 months ago
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: The five terrible words that sparked a cold war between my partner and I ⊖
If my own experience is anything to go by, the cold snap will be leaving more than increased heating bills in its wake. There is nothing like disagreeing over the cold to cause ruptures in a relation…