I had the most wonderful Christmas Day at  Zoë 's house with her and Brian and my grandsons. There were a lot of laughs and much cavorti...

It seems a shame to be blogging about politics in the Christmas break, but I am sure you care about keeping the NHS as much as I do. Have yo...

Covid or no-Covid, lockdown or no lockdown, ON Christmas or OFF Christmas , there is something magical about Christmas Eve: I always wake up...

Although I suffered a bout of despair last Thursday afternoon, when I threw myself down on the bed and covered my head with the pillow for h...

I'm wondering if this feeling of weariness and apathy was shared by people in the run up to the second Christmas of WW2. Somehow I can...

How is the Christmas spirit in your house right now? Long time blog reader Jenetta left this comment on a recent post: ...I got THE boxes do...

Perhaps you are hoping I'll be writing a cheery/funny/seasonal post today. I'm sorry. I have serious things on my mind. Yes, I care ...

It's a dreary day here and we're expecting sleet, but the SAD light was too glaring to have on when I first woke up. It's 9 a.m....

I am playing carols on my sax in a combo on Saturday in aid of the local hospice,  and when I went for a practice  yesterday , my teacher Me...

I've been musing on all the documentation required these days to go abroad and come home again, much of which is digital. I told you of ...

I had the best holiday I’ve ever had in Boulder with Isaac, Wendy and the girls. How special it was after the awfulness of not seeing them f...

  We have watched both versions of The Parent Trap in the last week - the original one, starring Hayley Mills, and the remake with Lindsay L...

I am having the best holiday I have had in years and it’s hard to make myself blog. It’s not just the bliss of being with my faraway family ...

On Friday I went with the family to see the immersive Van Gogh exhibit in Denver. I had never heard of it but it has been shown all over the...

 

' Are you excited?' everyone has been asking me about my trip to see my family in Colorado, after 20 months away from them. And I...

I have nothing to say except how slowly time passes when something you have longed for is on the horizon, creeping slowly towards you, but i...

Yesterday someone was asking me about my journey to Denver next week. This person is intelligent, switched-on, politically aware, caring, an...