Like most of us during the last 332 days, I have developed a couple of bad habits as a result of forced lockdowns. Slouching. Loafing...

I have always liked walking as a physical activity. Less traumatic than running. When I lived in London, I really did not like being...

I have a confession to make. I quite like making up flat-packed furniture. Who would have known that the chaos created by random pieces...

We are into the third, or is it fourth, week of 2021. My brain is fuddled, my thoughts are muddled. The UK is in limbo. The days are...

I chatted to a friend this week who reminded me of what he says to himself when life goes tits up and things don’t go to plan: “It’s not...

Well, I had a couple of weeks off from blogging, which was supposed to have been an exercise in stepping back a bit from social media,...

Christmas has crept up on me this year without a warning. It’s suddenly here. It feels like the kids have only just gone back to school...

An old friend of mine is having a sort out of photographs, digging through his past, and over the last few days he has sent me pictures...

I am not sure if it is my imagination, but people seem to be putting up their Christmas lights and trees a few weeks earlier than normal...

The term to ‘take for granted’, referring to the Oxford Dictionary of Definitions is to: · fail to properly appreciate (someone or...

Chatting away over a coffee to an old school friend of mine earlier this week on FaceTime made me feel a hell of a lot better. Firstly,...

Our dog was spayed this week - poor thing suffered the indignity of having her bits shaved and I felt guilty for about 3 minutes for...

Welcome to my week. A week where the clocks in the UK went back, and we got yet an extra hour of this godawful year. A week where we are...

The October half-term has been pretty average - a bit half-hearted and half-arsed with the UK still in Covid-confusion, no-one sure of...

I had to fill a form out for one thing and another recently which required me to tick an age bracket. The demographic breakdown was as...

Nothing gets the anxiety going like being a mum to two teenage boys. Little things - the normal humdrum of life, such as the loo seat -...

I have often thought about what is it that defines your personality, what makes you, you? What is it about your character that puts you...

Do you ever sense you are in-between something? In limbo? Don’t belong anywhere obvious? That you are waiting for something to happen...

It was pretty windy here at the weekend, and as I opened my bathroom window, a gust blew it wide creating a vortex so strong, that a...

I wasn’t writing a blog when my two were toddlers. More’s the pity, as I would have had plenty of contemporary material to draw from,...