I’ve started to watch The Café, a gentle new comedy set in Weston-Super-Mare. It's written and produced by Ralf Little and Craig Cash, both of Royle Family fame, and it's a pleasure to watch. They understand elderly people, who are treated with love and respect by the youngsters around them.
On Friday night we went for dinner at my sister’s house. Her daughter Abby recently became engaged to Jonny and she had arranged a dinner to welcome his parents, the future in-laws, who were staying in Harrogate. “Aunty Doo Doo”, as my sister is known to the family, does nothing by halves. Her dinner, which was served for 16 people, was beautiful in every way, down to the handwritten place cards. Our parents have been staying at her home, following my mum’s recent stay in hospital. The lovely Ruby, who is my mum's devoted carer, is also staying there. So on Friday night the roll call was extensive: Aunty Doo Doo, her husband, their daughter and fiancé; his parents; our parents and Ruby; my brother and his family, us and their two dogs.
Apparently there are millions of fathers around the world who are, unwittingly, raising other men’s children as their own. Worse still, if it can be worse, they have all been duped at the hands of wicked mothers, who care not for a partner’s “right” to know the truth.
Yesterday, in the changing room at my local gym, I met a young man aged three and his mum. They had been swimming and were going home to watch the rugby. He had red, chubby cheeks and fair hair cut into a pudding basin.
After the stress of appearing on Woman’s Hour was over on Friday (I was awake at 5am wondering what questions I would be asked!), new tribulations swiftly appeared. I went for lunch with my son Ben and we started planning for the Jewish New Year, which begins tomorrow at sundown and continues until Friday night.
Here’s a summer competition: It’s a fictitious scenario, with a puzzle at the end, which centres upon a rocky marriage. The wife is shying away from the truth. The husband is consumed with the guilt of an illicit affair.
Situated just outside Rome, a respectful distance from two seaside resorts where Romans come to escape the heat of the city, La Posta Vecchia was built in the 17th century on the ruins of a Roman villa.
This weekend journalist Anna Moore wrote a feature for The Times, “She’s alpha at work but she’s bullied in the home”, in which she quotes me about my experiences of clients involved in such relationships. The client is a high achiever but is still bullied at home by a dominant spouse, whose aggression can be verbal or physical or both. This is a very sensitive and difficult area …
When Wendi Deng married Rupert Murdoch in 1999, I must admit that I wondered what she really thought of him. She was so much younger than her new husband, and so beautiful and bright. Was she marrying for power and money? After yesterday’s incident in Westminster, when Mrs Murdoch had split seconds to respond to a surprise attack on her husband, without training or advice or time to think about …
This photo makes me smile. Taken at the Oxford Union debate earlier this year, it pictures Harry Benson and me. Harry is the founder of the Bristol Community Family Trust, which provides marriage …
This is an expanded version of my latest post for The Times, which appears on The Experts blog today. I was doing some work for the Law Society. I travelled to a small Midlands town, to a high …
This is an expanded version of my latest post for The Times, which appears on The Experts blog today. Marilyn Stowe A few years ago I became involved in a race row on one university campus. The Jewish student concerned was so fearful for her safety …
This is an expanded version of my latest post for The Times, which appears on The Experts blog today. Marilyn Stowe As a family lawyer, I am accustomed to representing men and women whose lives have …
When you make a will, you patiently set out your intentions for your hard-earned money and goods. Do you ever stop to think that in the event of your death, your decisions and bequests could be overruled? Recently I have come across situations where, following the death of a testator, the beneficiaries have decided to alter the terms and “remake” the will so that it becomes more advantageous …
Why I think grandparents’ legal rights are fit for purpose by guest blogger David Milburn
Q&A on finances and divorce with Marilyn Stowe – Wednesday February 8th
HuffPost Divorce: The Top 10 Stereotypical Marriage Wreckers
Holocaust Memorial Day: why we must all protect our culture of tolerance
Marathon woman (From Solicitors Journal)
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