What if your child wants to play an instrument and you know nothing about music and instruments? This is out of my comfort zone, the position I found myself last week in when my son started attending flute classes. This is the instrument he chose after finishing a year-long roundabout where he tried out six…
“Dreams Do Come True!!!”
Since my move to London in 1998, I have been on a mission to pursue my dreams. Some of my dreams have changed, some haven’t, and some luckily have evolved over the years. Only when I stop for a minute, I realise that I try to keep myself busy all the time, doing stuff and…
“Moms and Coffee Shops”
Most moms on school runs know how important local coffee shops are. Often a coffee shop equals a life saver. Not only because of the incredible taste and smell of the addictive substance they serve but because this is the place where your support system hangs out. Clever Girl lives in South East London. The local…
“WTF Is Wrong With Having an Old Fashion Conversation Around the Dinner Table?”
Clever Girl is not the mother of the year. She likes working, loves going out and spending money on herself not only on her children. Her every conversation doesn’t start with “Guess what my precious monkey did today, this morning or an hour ago…” She talks about her children, but in her humble opinion, there…
“Life Offline”
Urban people are always on the look-out for new, one of a kind, mind-blowing experience. Clever Girl is not much different in this aspect from others. She loves indulging herself in innovative and exciting ways of spending free time or collecting good memories for the future when she is old, tired and, probably, wrinkled. Since Clever…
“Parents, Start Paying Attention!!!”
As a good mom, the Clever Girl tries to go with her son to as many of his football practice sessions as she can. You must know here that Clever Girl is not a huge football fan & in all honesty football pisses her off big time. One of the main reasons for that is probably…
“The Tourist Attractions”
Clever Girl has never been to tourist attractions regardless of where it might have been. She prefers to sit in a coffee shop observing people while sipping her Latte. Besides, as we all know by now, Clever Girl is not a fan of spending money on silly stuff. However, sometimes the occasion calls for spending. For…
“A Property in the City”
Clever Girl still remembers the 90’s when the property in London was quite affordable. It was just before the Russians, the Asians, and… the other Asians, together with the property developers priced everyone out, and that was precisely the time when the Clever Girl invested in property herself. Clever Girl owns the house she lives…
“Picnic Blankets & the Social Hierarchic”
Clever Girl has been around the block for enough time to know that a lot of people are all about prestige and money. However, now and then she is caught off guard and finds herself surprised by the upgraded continuously level of social convention of the upper middle class. It was at the school picnic…
“Asshole Says: Women Are Dreadful Drivers!!!”
Clever Girl just loves meeting new people, both in her professional and personal life. One way of meeting them in her professional life is hiring freelancers for developing new projects. When she likes someone, and they prove to be compatible with working with the Clever Girl, she often re-hires the same person for several projects. What…