Mrs Lister writes…

There is a 75% chance that our son will be ‘a ginger’. His father is 100% red, his maternal grandmother 100% red – the genes are there, ready to burst forth with their fiery goodness upon the Mini Lister’s head. I really really want him to be a redhead. I love gingers and have long thought [...]

Please excuse me whilst I have a quick rant. I read an article in the Evening Standard on Thursday night that bloody infuriated me. Here – have a read yourself before continuing: Show your best smug face to the online world Finished? Right – here’s why this article – and countless other diatribes, moans and [...]

… we’ll find out on or around August 30th :) Mini Lister passed his first test with flying colours today. In fact, the only area of concern was when the lovely sonographer told us he was ‘a big baby – right up at the top of the scale’. Oooooof. *crosses legs* Mrs L xx

Two weeks today Jim and I will say goodbye to our lovely 1 bed Clapton flat and HELLO to our beautiful new home – a 3 bedroom house in Leytonstone, E11. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am – it feels like we’re starting a brand new chapter in our lives and I [...]

  Caitlin Moran recently did a shout out on Twitter asking people to send in the one thing they ‘wished women would stop worrying about’ I responded and as a result was asked to contribute a blog post to her How To Be A Woman website. You can read it HERE Have a lovely week [...]

I miss my daily commute. Not the one sat on a bus for 1hr 15 mins with myriad smelly people – the one I have been suffering since early February – no, I miss the one where it’s just me, my bike, and several hundred fellow cyclists, pedestrians, taxi drivers, bus drivers and white van [...]