

Curl Up and Dye
A trip to the hairdressers can be one of two things. It’s either going to be a relaxing treat, which has the potential to rejuvenate a...


Funny Girl
I’d better state right from the get-go that despite the title of this post, this subject-matter isn’t going to be wildly amusing. So...


Rules of the Road
I have a love-hate relationship with cars. Cars don’t like me and I don’t much like them. But needs must and the auto-mobile has become a...


Lynn's Day
Today is the fourth anniversary of my sister’s death. We call it Lynn’s Day. Every year on this date I try to commemorate it in some...


My Angelic Offspring
I have a confession to make. I have the best-behaved children I have ever come across. Believe you me; I don’t say this to brag. It’s a...


Mamma Used to Say...
I have always lived my life by a certain moral and practical internal code. But it has occurred to me that some of that code hasn’t...


Politically Incorrect
This is the first and last time I am ever going to write about politics. I promise. Writing is a bit of a feral animal sometimes; you...


A League of One's Own
I’m a married woman with two kids so this no longer applies to me, but when I was younger and a fully-fledged member of the dating-game;...


Tattoo or not Tattoo? That is the Question...
There’s something I’ve been deliberating over for more than 20 years and at the age of 43, I’m wondering if I’ve left it a bit too late...


La La La La Not Listening!
There’s something wrong with me. Well yes, that’s no big revelation – we already knew that; but there is definitely something a little...