When you're busy being all domesticated and making playdough at home for your child, DO follow the instructions and make the effort to put rubber gloves on when you're adding the colouring. This is especially pertinent if you've recently made the... Read more

I thought I wanted to write a piece on the validity of writing, but actually find it’s just that I have a gripe with the internet.   Now, I love the internet, rely on it, am on it 24/7, use it to connect to family and friends, share gos... Read more

When you go to a petting zoo with your kids (or for your own delectation and delight), and you see a large cage filled with cockatoos with a LARGE sign up saying ‘please don’t try to pet us or feed us, we bite!” …DON’T ... Read more

My daughter and I have just welcomed back my husband into the domestic hearth (ironic turn of phrase actually as there’s no heating in this house and it being mid-winter it’s frickin’ freezin’ Mr Bigglseworth) after an unw... Read more

 What would you say to someone of no startling flexibility, nearing their forties, who gave themselves weeks’ worth of inner-thigh pain by attempting the drop-splits at the end of a spirited post-dinner rendition of the Can-Can? Idiot? Q... Read more

… but can’t resist anyway. (Click on the pic and check out the map if you’re wondering what I’m on about…).

I have a black eye! Well, it’s actually a delicate shade of blue, green and mauve but I believe it’s colloquially termed ‘black’. Acquired in a risibly clumsy slip-and-slide down some carpeted steps while carrying a plastic la... Read more

Wow what a lovely lot of comments – thanks all. I found it interesting to see that the general consensus is that a lack of the profile photo is interpreted as a reticence about standing in front of the work and owning it in the case of its not ... Read more

Well, goodness knows I keep enough blogs already but oh well I suppose it can but sink into digital oblivion at the worst. I’ve been flummoxed once too often perhaps for where to put a stray thought – why, even the smallest of them must h... Read more