I’ve been on the property ladder since 1998 – a year in which someone was pretending to hold that ladder steady so it seemed alright to climb on. They were lying. They weren’t staying at all: they were holding it til you got on, then they legged it and took your purse with them for [...]

This has been the longest month ever. I don’t know what’s wrong with it. It really does feel like one of those people you don’t know very well who comes home with a gang after the pub, doesn’t want to have tea, doesn’t want to watch a DVD, moans about being hungry and then asks [...]

Yesterday’s blog was categorically not funny. They can’t all be. (And they’re not, I hear you chorus.) But thanks for reading it, anyway. Also, thanks for all your supportive messages but, as ever, you don’t have to to worry about me: I like to throw in an air of high drama to the blogs that [...]

For the last few months, I’ve been being fobbed off by someone that I’m supposed to be working with. I don’t deal with that sort of thing well.  I spend the initial bit being really polite and making excuses for the fact that they’re busy and under stress and that, by giving them space, they’ll [...]

I don’t like Glee as much as everyone said I would. “Oh, you’ll simply love Glee!” they breathed, like girl boarders in a novella about schooling away. “It’s ripping fun!” They didn’t say that last bit, but they may as well have because it was all so hysterical.