Fearlessly Attempting

People love to hate whatever tribe the newspapers identify, don't they.  In the 80s I remember them mocking Yuppies, and Sloane Rangers....

It's half term here in Yorkshire. The concept of half term confused me when I first moved here from Canada - only 6 weeks of school and ...

It's important to have something to look forward to, I find, particularly at this time of year. Spring is easy. The willow tree in my ...

"I am wide awake" It's 1 am. Mark and the kids are in bed. I'm doing the last round of chores - folding the stuff from t...

Ah, Keats.   Of all the poems I learnt at school, Ode to Autumn is the only one strangers quote t me. There is something about going for a w...

Massive crowds, long queues for portaloos, a everyone there a massive fan: festivals are as much a fixture of the year as Wimbledon or the P...

While the kids were in the Costa del Sol with their cousins, Mark and I had 8 days to ourselves. We could go out every night! We could have ...