Blog.  We’ve been larking about making a quarantine video for the sister. A big part of me felt b-a-d that here was I, all singing and all dancing (along with the husband and sons nos 2 and 3) to the tune of Sweet Caroline (which … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 14th

Blog, I now know why my GP was so dismissive of The Virus. Writing in The Guardian (seems to be my go-to paper these days, probably because it’s one of the few that you can read for free) a GP catalogued his experience with Covid-19, … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 5th

Dearest Blog So, Dr Campbell lately has a catchy phrase he’s employing for use during these times of The Virus.  That phrase is: Two meters distance determines our existence. Pithy wouldn’t you say. Just the sort of mantra you can rhythmically repeat to yourself as … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 3rd

Dearest Blog. Never have the newshounds had it so good.  Never have they wagged their tails with such glee, whilst sniffing out every single coronavirus tidbit, no matter how tenuous the link. Today one of the BBC’s old journo dogs, holed up in isolation at … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – March 31st

How wonderful Billie is. How breathy and directly emotional is her recorded voice, but also she's actually better live.  Billie sings about suicide in her single Everything I Wanted, or rather a nightmare she had, in which she committed suicide by jumping off the Golden … Continue reading Audacity 7 – Billie Eilish and Me

For a number of years, I had a recurring nightmare.  I would be returning home, walking down the garden path leading to the back door. As I put the key in to unlock the glass door, I’d see a figure standing motionless in the kitchen … Continue reading Us

I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish … Continue reading A Christmas Carol BBC -22nd, 23rd, 24th December 2019

The husband and I visited Butser Ancient Farm during half-term week. We forgot it was half-term or we may have delayed our visit but, on the day we visited, the farm was practically empty, save for a few sets of parents accompanied by one or … Continue reading We Encounter Madness in the South Downs

A Halloween tale, a day late due to busyness. ***** The young woman had been job hunting for a month.  Job hunting was expected of her, that much she knew.  You didn’t finish two degrees and then sit around wishing you could take early retirement, … Continue reading Nobody Ever Leaves Here

I’ve just come back from a week in the Lake District. My first holiday in the Lakes - hopefully not the last. The Lake District. Once home to Wordsworth; poncing about in the daffodils, declaiming nuggets of poetic wisdom, his sister meekly trailing up the … Continue reading Of Mice and (Wo)Men