Did you see The One Show last Friday? They were revisiting the famous talent show, Opportunity Knocks. While I was watching the interview with former child star, Neil Reid, and listening to some of...
Up Jacob’s Creek without a paddle
I don’t know if any of you have been watching the episodes of Celebrity Mastermind but in our house we are Sky plus-ing them like mad, for sheer entertainment value. The nation’s favourite reality...
First-Foot Frivolity
Although we had done the Newcastle run the week before Christmas, we decided last minute to visit again for New Year to keep Mum company. There were plenty of people to look after her...
Regressing into Childhood
My husband seems to like penguins. Two years in a row he’s bought virtually identical penguin-based Christmas cards. Knowing he’s a softie, like me, and can’t resist teddies and suchlike, I bought him a...
Whistling Carols and yet another round of Arthritic Charades
We did that thing couples do at Christmas; agree not to buy each other anything and then worry as the 25th approaches that someone is reneging on the deal. I realised by the middle...
Who needs a stocking when you can have a Liebster Award for Christmas.
Christmas came a few days early for me with a very nice comment on my blog from The Whining Diner and Wellfedfred letting me know I was the recipient of a Liebster blog award. I...
Christmas Card, 1949: The King’s School, Peterborough
In 1949, when my dad was 15, he designed the card above which was selected by his school, The King’s School, Peterborough, for their Christmas card that year. I remember seeing the card quite often over the...
Crime and Punishment
What’s the worst punishment you can remember a school dishing out to its pupils? I ask this because a feature caught my eye in a magazine from my husband’s old school, George Heriot’s in Edinburgh. The...