1st December, 2023
Well, that’s this year’s Christmas Number One taken care of – Fairytale of New York. In this woke climate, I’m almost scared to say I can’t stand it! Not that I don’t like the tune and the folk influence, I do, and it’s all...24th November, 2023
Black Friday. Excellent. It’s November, it’s freezing, energy prices are set to rise again in January, First Class stamps are £1.25 and it’s Black Friday! Who needs it?! The scammers, I suppose. Bombarded by emails for weeks, now, one would hope...19th November, 2023
Just who can one rely on these days?! I was doing so well, too, until it all went pear-shaped. Apologies. Two days late, maybe even three by the time I have finished this, my promised Friday deadline has been and gone. This afternoon, however, I decided to pop...10th November, 2023
Help! Still here but doing my best to fulfil my promise to post on a Friday. Just nipped down to the little boutique hotel down the road from Becca’s apartment – too close and too easy – where I thought I could sit and have a Cappuccino in daylight...3rd November, 2023
So much of life passes one by. It’s the little things, the everyday things one takes for granted and then, all of a sudden, they’re gone and one realises how important they really were … I have been in Naples this week. Sipped cocktails on the...
‘You’re only given a little spark of madness and, if you lose that, you’re nothing.’
Robin Williams