There are still hundreds of vulnerable child refugees in Calais. Please, please, will you email your MP immediately to urge them to speak...

I have been very busy this last week and was so tired yesterday, that I planned to do only two things: to go for a tiny bike ride, and to pl...

I did it. I went to see I, Daniel Blake .  I went with Mary 's younger daughter. I was armed with two handkerchiefs, but as it turned o...

My good friend, Chrissie Poulson , crime writer extraordinaire, has a new novel out today: Deep Water . It's like all her books - intel...

I used to go to the pictures (aka the cinema) with my friend Mary . And actually, only with Mary. That was what we did together. That and t...

As a postscript to yesterday's blog post, try watching this. https://vimeo.com/179713937?ref=em-share  It creases me up.

I've not told you anything about my writing life lately, have I? Last autumn I was intensively pitching my TV comedy drama based on m...

On this doorstep I stand year after year to watch you going and think: May you not skin your knees. May you not catch your fingers ...

You know what? I think I'm getting old. I was about to write and tell you how hectic it's been around here, and then lead into the p...

Suddenly it's autumn. Yesterday when I was gardening I had to wear a fleece, and when I went out on my bike I had to wear gloves. This m...

It's been a hectic week of highs and lows, and I am sitting in bed this morning wanting to blog, but feeling too stunned. I'll share...

I've been woozy with jetlag and missing my girls, but I don't want to dwell on that. I want to talk about my hat. Are you a fe...

Have you noticed, those of you who are gardeners, how hard it is to sit and relax in your garden, when you can see weeds that need pulling a...

Americans may not understand tea, but they excel at bacon, breakfast, being cheerful, and teeth. And Boulder, Colorado is a beautiful pl...

I'm lying in Isaac and Wendy's hammock and this is the view. The family is out and the house is quiet: the cicadas are not....

Life has been so full out here, I've had no time to blog. This last Monday to Friday I was with the Aging Hippie in California. We drove...

Photographs of Cece and Lux, taken by Isaac ( their dad, my son.) It's hectic here, but not so hectic that I didn't have time to rea...

I'm flying out west tomorrow to see these little Boulder beauties: I might blog while I'm out there. We'll see.

I've been pondering this post for ages. How to get across in words what I want to say. I'm supposed to be a writer and I haven't...

It's been so hectic this summer in so many ways that I decided to pare down every outside engagement I could this week. It was a good de...