It's Your Duty To Be Beautiful.

“Daily to a profession- paid thinking and clean hands. She rises Unquestioning. It’s second nature now. The hours, though all of daylight, suit her. The desk, typewriter, carpet, pleasantries are a kind of civilisation, built on money, of course, but money, now she sees, is human. She has learned giving from her first chequebook, intimacy…

It was Finley’s ‘Baby Blessing’ at the weekend. I’d vowed not to leave it so long that he was capable of walking down the aisle and blessing himself, but here we are fifteen months later, and Finley not only walked up to the font, he also shouted "Hiya!" to half the congregation, and tugged at…

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This week I have given over the space usually reserved for the Housekeepers Auctions to some of the delicious little handmade items being auctioned in honour of the Kim family. I didn’t know James. I don’t know his wife Kati or the two little precious girls he left behind. But I do know this: the…