RUMOURS have been circulating for a while that Kanye West had been ‘begging’ Anna Wintour to put his fiancée, Kim Kardashian, on the cover of American Vogue.

TIME has been turning; ordinary days, filled with ordinary stuff, have moved quietly into the past without my noticing.

I’VE JUST discovered that my 48-year-old husband will be undergoing a hip replacement on my birthday.

NOT counting childbirth, and looking for the right exit off the Boulevard Peripherique — with four children in the back of the car, broken indicators, and the wrong map — placing my child’s future in the hands of a neurosurgeon has been the most immersive experience of my life.

ELEVEN in the morning, Customs area, Stansted airport — and no amount of wishful thinking is going to turn my over-stuffed canvas holdall into “a second small carry-on bag, no bigger than 35cm x 20cm x 20cm, which will allow a bottle of wine or equivalent to be carried”.

HOME, bed, 11.40pm.

HOME, 2pm. My mother is in the conservatory, in combative form.

I’M GOING to tell you a story. Similar plot line to “The Engine That Could”.

HOME, Jan 4, and I’m trying to take down the Christmas tree.

WE got to know our 20-year-old neighbour J well before he moved up to Sligo for the surf.