This is going to be my last blog for a week or so, because I leave for New York on Thursday. On Sunday, I run the ING New York Marathon in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society and I am absolutely bricking it. Not least because I have to pack tonight, due to a (very welcome) [...]

I HATE having my photos done. Hate it. But that’s exactly what I’m having done today. Luckily, the shots are being done by the very lovely and amazingly talented Andy Hollingworth so it’s unlikely to go horribly wrong, but I still have the niggling apprehension that – despite his thousands and thousands of beautiful images [...]

All this time, Jacinta had refused to use a mobile. Phone, that is. She had numerous mobiles hanging around the house, made from blown-out eggs, dyed, painted and threaded-through; they reminded her there was a hen outside and that made her very happy. She made pin-holes in both ends, and blew gently but firmly til [...]

Back off – I’m gonna blow! Well, maybe not blow, exactly, but certainly ruin your viewing pleasure. I am seriously, seriously dangerous, which for me is a whole new role in a whole new world. I used to be the last to watch any new shows or films; now I live with the Ubergeek – [...]

I never go out anymore! If I’d heard myself saying that 10 years ago, I’d have been shocked. Not that I thought it would never happen, but that I would be saying it with such delight and relish – munching into the phrase like a fine veggie burger. I’m not a hermit, by any stretch: [...]