There are times when you feel life just can’t get any better, the sun shines brightly, you get a lovely email from an old friend and then you write a paragraph that is so good, it ought to be engraved on a gold bar and kept by the British Library in their extra-specially-good section. And […]

All of my clothes appear to have shrunk over the Christmas period. All of them. I think there must be something wrong with my washing machine. Perhaps it has a faulty thermostat and is washing at a near boil? Or perhaps it is the new softener I am using, causing the cotton fibres to contract […]

Is today officially the most depressing day of the year? Feels like it. I remember last year, they announced that the 24th of Jan was scientifically calculated to be the unhappiest day of the year. Something to do with the year’s longest gap between pay days and shitty weather. But I must say, today feels […]

The last two days we have both worked all day. We work away on our laptops’, Kai in his room, me at the table in the sitting room. Come twelve I am starving so I make lunch. These last two days we have had blueberry pancakes for afters. Pudding for a working lunch, I know, […]