A very special birdhouse

  There's a beautiful fairy in my garden! She's wearing a floral dress and flowers in her hair. She's my youngest daughter.

  Which bird it this? If it's not my snoring husband, it's a bird keeping me awake at night! But which bird is it?!

I suppose it's one of those things that happens as you grow older. At least in my case: my eyebrows, which used to be quite eyecatching, have grown paler and paler. I want eyebrows like Julianne Margulies At first I didn't care all that much, because I was wearing glasses, and they hid my pale...

Have you been struggling to fit it all in? Applauding your kids at their soccer games, their piano lessons, their ballet performance and at their school play? When at the same time you have to keep the house running and show up at your job in time? I have the solution! And her name is...

I've been reading Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Readingby Nina Sankovitch, and I was struck by something she said about rekindling your sex life. Especially in the light of the recent hype surrounding the softporn book 'Fifty Shades of Grey. Nina advises to have a glass of wine, read a good...

A well written grocery list is like a beautiful symphony! It will get you through the supermarket in the fastest, most efficient way. And if it's a masterpiece, it will prevent you tearing your hair out in despair later in the week, because you just found out you're missing an essential ingrediënt. Like cheese puffs....