22nd November, 2018

​‘I may be some time …’  Isn’t that what Scott of the Antarctic said before he left the tent and walked out into the snowy waste never to be seen again?  Well, I remember watching the film as a little girl and the words and image remain.  Now, why should...
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15th November, 2018

​Don’t you sometimes wish you could put your hair on a stand overnight and not sleep on it?!  I have just walked past a mirror and seen the disaster which is and if I could just ‘bottle’ it at that second when I actually think it looks ok …  No?  Only me...
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8th November, 2018

​‘Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away … ‘  Somehow even Frank Sinatra couldn’t make the prospect of today’s air travel inviting.  Tempted to use that familiar phrase ‘I’d rather be staked to an anthill naked’ – the source of...
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31st October, 2018

​OK.  Let me start by saying I have just checked my latest readership figures and … I have made it!  I have tipped the thousand by 115 – so excited and grateful to my new friend, Tom, who is very prominent at the moment travelling the country on his Jubilee Road tour...
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20th October, 2018

​Friday, 12th October 2018.  An auspicious date.  All I can say is good luck to Princess Eugenie and Jack!  Thirty-four years ago on this very day, the world was waking up to the news of the Brighton bombing when, during the Conservative party conference, the IRA...
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