Let's talk about teeth.  Forget I Should Have Married a Vet, what about a dentist?  Nope.  Not for me.  Put it this way, with the odd exception, vets are good-looking ...  Used to be predominantly male, too.  Of course, I am referring to the earnings of a dentist,...

Timetabled in red, my weekly post on a Friday.  Isn't that what I said - well, wrote?  Always a girl of my word, then, here I am.  Whether or not I shall finish it today, in time for posting, is another matter ...  I might add that I was going to write 'a woman of her...

Scarily, I just typed December instead of September.  Thing is, it will be Christmas in a blink of an eye albeit, miraculously, the sun is in evidence today.  Autumn, as is well documented, has long been my favourite season but, traditionally, it follows summer!  No...

'There's no present like the time.' The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel I happened to catch the end of that lovely film the other day.  A more stellar cast there could not be!  Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, to name but a few.  I hadn't...

Wow!  The right to choose ...  This morning, I was searching for something in my 'Bookmarks' when I came across the link to my Ode to Covid on YouTube.  Every so often, I click on it to check whether it is still live.  Seemingly so, I listen and watch, always...

To think I used to write daily during lockdown!  What changed?  In a word - or two - so much.  For me, those years were full of fight, energised by the need to try and open people's eyes as to what was, actually, going on.  The facts were all there but most were too...

Quite frankly, I am at pains as to where to begin ...  I love the English language of old.  So much more expressive in the wake of the colloquial two-dimensional drivel of today.  It's been more than two weeks since my last post - of which I have just reminded myself...

You cannot be serious!!  John McEnroe.  What were you thinking?  If ever there was an embodiment of a male 'mid-life' crisis - in all honesty, post 'mid-life' crisis - then, yesterday, the 64-year-old former champion turned commentator was it.  Thinning grey hair -...

Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3 ...  Wonder why that came into my head?  Ian Dury & the Blockheads, 1979.  More to the point, whatever happened to Parts 1& 2?  Let's face it, there are few enough reasons for Part 1, alone!  Struggling to muster the enthusiasm,...

How's your imagination?  Picture I am some famous singer appearing at Glastonbury ...  I did say it required imagination!  Anyway, headlining - obvs - and walking out onto the Pyramid Stage to harness the adulation, the first thing I would do is ask/tell anyone...

A wait of three years but it was worth every second ...  Andrea Bocelli, live, in the Baths of Caracalla, Rome.  I still remember booking the tickets, way back in August 2019.  A considered amount, we pondered long and hard but the decision was always inevitable.  The...

Oh, fickle weather!  Apparently, it's June.  Who would know?  Well, Tom, Donny and the other one ...  I have three calendars hanging around, as it were, and, remembering to turn the page on each, I am reminded daily of the passage of time.  To be honest, Donny still...