petite anglaise

• Jack
  Jack was finally born at 41 weeks and 4 days on Monday 2 November, on the night of the full moon. His birth was spookily similar to Tadpole’s. I found myself in the same salle d’accouchement at the Maternité des Lilas where my daughter had been born six year earlier and, like his big sister, [...]
  
  
• over and out?
  I got an email from a reader the other day enquiring after my well-being and suddenly realised I hadn’t blogged in over a month. The truth of the matter is that I’m fine – indeed, we all are – but the inclination to blog, which has been on the wane for some time, seems to [...]
  
  
• quickie
  In honour of official ‘French Kissing’ publication day, I just wanted to answer a lot of the queries I’ve been receiving on facebook and by email about the novel’s availability abroad. As things currently stand, I only have a Doubleday Canada release date – March 2010. The Penguin UK version should be available in the [...]
  
  
• impatience
  I’m fed up of being pregnant. ‘I honestly feel like time has slowed to a crawl,’ I moan to The Boy as I toss and turn, trying to find a comfortable position in bed. ‘I swear, this has been the longest seven months of my entire life…’ ‘Not long to wait now,’ he replies, doing [...]
  
  
• holiday
  Despite the fact that… I spent one night throwing my guts up in a bathroom which smelled of eau de septic tank Tadpole had to be taken to see a doctor with a suspected ear infection Tadpole’s ear meds made her throw up On one of our boating trips, the boat left an island stop [...]
  
  
• à titre d'information…
  Our little family of three (plus bump) is heading to Turkey (more specifically, to the Lycian coast) for two weeks, so things will be (even) quieter than usual around here. In the meantime, I leave you with the cover of my first novel, published as a paperback original in late August in the UK (to [...]
  
  
• sex
  In the weeks leading up to our second ultrasound scan, lots of people began asking me whether we’d be in favour of taking a closer look at baby’s undercarriage to determine its sex. This is something I’d studiously avoided the first time around, allowing Tadpole to creep up on me by stealth. I was hankering [...]
  
  
• knocked update
  My first trimester blues (and headaches, and tummy aches, and indigestion) began to fade once I’d got the first three and a half months behind me. Now, just clear of the halfway mark, I’m starting to feel much more energetic and an awful lot happier, something for which I suspect The Boy is just as [...]
  
  
• window seat
  I’ve written a guest post for the folks over at the Window Seat blog on Travelocity which might interest any readers planning a trip to Paris in the near future. Enjoy! Posted in misc
  
  
• feeling blue
  I just happened to spot the new cover for the Random House paperback edition of petite, published in the US and Canada on 9 June (which I suspect will be overshadowed by Tadpole’s birthday, on the very same day!) I had no idea it was going to be blue, and while I like the shade [...]