Nesting, hoarding and why you should neglect your children...
So we’re into the home stretch thank goodness. And with the end in sight it is normal for the heavily pregnant female to resort to ‘ nesting’ , an instinctual phenomena characterised by sudden spurts of cleaning and organising of her habitat in preparation for the new arrival. This manifestation is an early indication that labour is imminent. I have my own personally adapted version of this phenomenon. I call it ‘ hoarding ’ and it is characterised by the frantic buying of clothes that I can wear on the other side . I’ve been trawling the Boden sale all week filling my virtual trolly with gorgeous items that will hopefully goad me into actually fitting into them as soon as possible. And last week I made a special trip to the Dubai Outlet mall with the pretense of treating the children to an hours play in the creche. In reality I was on a mission to buy something gorgeous in Monsoon . It was disappointing to be honest but I still managed to...