Yesterday I watched the BBC documentary, Terry Pratchett – Choosing to Die, where Sir Terry Pratchett explored the contentious issue of assisted suicide. The programme has created much controversy, in particular for filming the...
Island Girl
This is my new island. It’s a bloody big one. If you stand at one end you need semaphore to ask someone at the other end to pass the salt. Husband is having depraved...
Flying High
Do you remember the British Airways adverts some years ago which featured the Flower Duet music from the opera Lakme by Delibes? One of my readers, the lovely, funny Marion who lives in Panama, emailed me...
Mum’s Gone to the Airport – Trish’s Top Travel Tips
I think we are all familiar with most travel tips regarding air travel: colouring books for children, pashminas and loose clothing to counteract the cold and trapped wind (you didn’t know that?) , roll...
Mum’s not gone anywhere this week
This time last year we were sunning ourselves in Picardy, courtesy of Eurocamp. This year we are going nowhere; instead I’m playing at being the foreman and chief coffee maker while we have our...
The kitchen’s coming on nicely
The plasterers arrived on Monday. A mouthful of teeth between them and a hearty two sugars each in their tea – balance has been restored after the no-sugar, smart, neat-bummed brigade from last week....
Goodbye Old Kitchen
As I sit here typing, our old kitchen is being demolished. I can hear the chap downstairs chipping away at old tiles, unscrewing units from the walls and smashing the brick island into rubble. Most...
My Perfect Cousin
John and Rory April 2011 One little boy is 15 weeks old and one big boy is 15 years old but they are both adorable to me. You may remember my nephew John...