I showed Dave my photographs of the beach hut trip, and when he saw this one… …he said “Ooh, look at those hinges on the door - parliam...

And they also buy you cashmere cardigans in your favourite colour because “It was reduced to £19 in M&S, and I couldn’t just leave it th...

Don’t you wish you had a sister who whisked you off to stay in a beach hut for the night? The view from the front… The view fro...

Yay! Today I am going to stay with my lovely sister Jen. I haven’t seen her for months, and I miss her. While everyone else is watching THE ...

OK, chaps, I probably was a bit mean to Greenberg and Ben Stiller in yesterday’s post.  On the other hand, I really thought the film was….....

When my friend asked me to go and see Greenberg , a film about a man having a mid-life crisis, I said yes. I’ve been having a late-mid-life...

I managed twelve steps on the slackline yesterday. Twelve steps!!!!!

The slackline is back in my life. I had a breakthrough yesterday. When Mackenzie was here he said that walking backwards on it was easier t...

"Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchc...

Statistics show that the majority of accidents occur in the home. On Sunday morning I was washing up. I had bare feet, and was wearing my s...

My mother died eighteen months ago and in all that time I have dreamed about her three times – just three times. I miss her and I would like...

I often come across poems I like on other blogs, and I think – oooh, I’d like to share that with my readers, too. But I don’t. I don’t thin...

Meeting strangers who have read my books and enjoyed them is so very heartening. Last night I gave a talk and the audience were smashing....

First, one I saw at Bakewell market yesterday… And secondly… If you want to hear me talk about my books, come to Clay Cross library t...

I am sitting in bed. The pearl grey sky behind the may blossom and copper beech is heavy with rain. The clock in the hall has just chimed...

I’ve just been baking a coffee cake while listening to a saxophone playing Gershwin songs. It’s warm enough to have bare feet on the wood...

It is too hot to garden. It is too hot to cycle. It is too hot to play my sax. I am happy. But I would like my chair.

The Israelis will not allow plastic toys through the Gaza blockade.   I could blog everyday on Gaza and the suffering of the Palestin...

If you care about the suffering of the ordinary people of Gaza, and the Palestinians in the occupied territories who are treated as second ...

That is all I have to say today. If you want to read more, you could read this.

…and only Turkey bats an eyelid. The United Nations says that the people of Gaza are getting less than a quarter of the aid they need – no...

That is the last time I let a 16 year old loose on my slackline. Michelle and Mac dropped in a couple of days ago, and while Michelle and...

My sax lessons always cheer me up. I go there feeling weary and sad and come out happy. Mel is so encouraging. If adult students had a pare...

So there I was ploughing my way through a long list of really urgent chores, nowhere near the end of it, when my 4 year old grandchild rang ...

Sometimes we think about moving from here, and decide it’s a bad idea. Apart from everything else, I couldn’t bear to leave our bedroom behi...