THE SMALL THINGS

Posted by Tania Kindersley. A new study is out on the science of ageing. Money quote: 'being thin is what ages you most'. http:/...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Here is what the women do: make it look effortless. (And when I say The Women, I obviously mean every single one...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Here, in the nuttiest of nutshells, is the miracle of the blogosphere. The wonderful Mrs Trefusis had a new po...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Here is an enchanting picture of Sarah's little girl, dressed as a snowy owl (of course). She is known by me...

Posted by Sarah Vine. Okay, so the economy is in freefall and we're all facing tax hikes. And what is the Government doing? They're ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. As part of the Charlotte potato festival that is taking place in my house, I made these for lunch, and ate them ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Dear Readers, Please excuse this filthy commercial intrusion into the otherwise perfectly pristine blog. I...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Here is Master William, Sarah's little fellow, in his special Easter bonnet. Master Will is the best story-t...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Stop the Presses! 25% of women say they would rather win America's Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize. B...

Teenagers, huh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm

Posted by Sarah Vine. So last night, feeling a bit chilly, I invented a stew. It's probably all wrong, but I ate it anyway and it was ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Here comes a quiz in The Times to tell whether your brain is a lady or a gentleman. http://www.timesonline.co.uk...

Posted by Sarah Vine. You've probably already seen this, but it made me laugh a lot. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7958000...

Hello to you Cassandra. I adore Custard Creams, although lately I've become slightly addicted to Fox's Party Rings. FEEL the sugar r...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. http://www.gaebler.com/Economist-Blames-Twitter-for-Down-Economy.htm Hot news off the wires: it is Twitter that ...

I should have introduced myself: Sarah, Tania's lesser co-author. 

Have just read to the bottom of the blog (I never read to the bottom of anything, it's one of my most irritating habits. I also never fi...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Sarah has not had time to post anything yet. As well as writing books, she works for The Times and has two child...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Until very recently, I did not really know what the blogosphere was. I knew it was out there, but it had a large...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Just took the dogs out into the gloaming. The last of the light was dying over the hills, and the sky was the co...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Spent my crazy Friday night naughtily drinking some of my 2005 claret, three years too early, (it’s the best vin...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. This made me cry. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article5917775.ece

Slightly inauthentic panzanella, in celebration of spring. Posted by Tania Kindersley. There are as many recipes for panzanella as there are...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. The very sad news comes of the death of Natasha Richardson. I saw her, almost twenty-five years ago, playing Nin...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. One of the dangers of publishing a book is that it can, if you are not very careful, turn you into a monster. I...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. It’s been a demoralising week for females, with the release of a Home Office Survey revealing the depressing fa...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. 8.25am. I am on the train. (You have to imagine me shouting that in the manner of a banker yelling into a mobile...

Listen to Anne Widdecombe’s programme on Spinsters in Popular Culture for Radio Four BBC iPlayer - From Jean Brodie to Carrie Bradshaw: Spin...

Today, at around three o'clock, the telephone rang. There was no one in the house. Outside, the rain was racing across the lawn. The sky...