'Add life to your days, not days to your life.' Ben Fogle Honestly, Ben Fogle should be available on the NHS.  On second thoughts, nobody can wait that long.  Can we clone him?! Last night marked the third time I have seen him but I shall never tire of listening to...

'Feeling positive????  Are you kidding me?  It's practically dark here, my back is killing me from so much sitting and writing, the world is in free-fall and human beings are horrible!!  Anything else?  Oh, Beyoncé rocks, thank God!' My message of reply to a friend -...

Well, here I am once more afoot ...  I used to say that all the time and I have absolutely no idea why!  Today, it's said in resignation, really, as I did not intend to be here at this moment.  In fact, I had one foot out the door on my way to the beach when darkness...

So many things to do, so little time to do them.   Why is that always the way - or is it an age thing?  How many times, when you were little, were you told to wait until you're older when the years will just fly by?  Yes.  Yes.  Who listened?!  No truer word spoken,...

Apologies, once again.  Time waits for no man, clearly.  It's hard to believe that I used to post every day during lockdown, dropping back to twice-weekly thereafter.  Now ...  I think I was so enraged back then, refusing to be taken for a fool, as the forces that be...

I've got a book to finish!  Somehow, though, I knew I'd end up writing about last night, good or bad ... Ironically, torturous was my word of choice when I turned to Manny as the lights went up in the cinema following the National Theatre Live screening of 'Good'.  A...

Opening this document, for some reason, I typed 14th July.  No clue why but today's weather has certainly borne no resemblance to that of July!  Grey, overcast, windy, I have been freezing and my attempt to put one foot in front of the other, on the beach, a feat of...

I was so desperate to start with 'And there you have it!' but I don't think I will ever be able to open a sentence with 'And'. 'But' or 'Because'.  They are conjunctions, after all, whose purpose is to link clauses!  Taught grammar from nappies, the inimitable Betsy...

I may be starting this in March but I won't finish until April ...  Yes, I know, my posts are often - alright, usually - a tad on the long side (I would call it value for money, if anyone was paying) but that has not a jot to do with it.  Friday evening, I am sinking...

'When the military went into the bunker to get Saddam Hussein, they found a series of Osmond albums.' Merrill Osmond (talking to Dan Wootton on GB News, March 2022) Now, that made me smile. I was, actually, going to start this with the words, ' In this life, one must...

I don't like Mondays, particularly grey, rainy, cold Mondays.  Loved the song, though, à la the Boomtown Rats.  Absolute classic - and classic Bob Geldof or, should I say, Sir Bob Geldof.  A title of which he is more than worthy - unlike some - I relish his rare...

In a recent survey of two thousand people, one in six (21%), admitted that they struggle to tell the time unless it's on a digital clock.  Those comprising that 21% largely fell into the 18-24 age bracket.  Superb!  Picture my face now - or, perhaps not - but, put it...