26th April, 2022

Right.   It’s 2.30pm and I am giving myself one hour.  Honestly, I have no clue where the time goes – or why this computer is so keen on double spacing between words!   Maybe my typing skills are too advanced and it can’t keep up.  That’s it. ...

17th May, 2021

Right, that’s me.  The sun is shining, chores done, been for a walk, supper organised.  Let me just take my Barbour off, nip to the loo … oh, and take a look in the bookcase to see whether I was right about the definition of that Latin word in Tatler. ...

2nd October, 2020

Do you know, it’s much easier to be bland; keep taking the pills and let the world pass you by without opinion.  Me?  I don’t take pills and as for having no opinion, you’d have to be a gate post in this climate!  Today, I just don’t know where to begin.  I am angry. ...

24th November, 2019

The Beast of Buckingham Palace.  A new book courtesy of David Walliams.  They say timing is everything … So that was the week that was and, if I ever questioned my dwindling youth, I am certainly in no doubt now!  Firstly, the visit to the hygienist followed by that...

18th August, 2019

The eyes never lie. Windows to the soul, they are unyielding in the game of life. ‘Isn’t it always the same old story – that hindsight is the teacher who always arrives too late and says I-told-you-so? We’re always blissfully ignorant and complacent leading up to...