I was out on Friday night. Properly out, in town. It was the first time since I got a ring on it and the first time since my historic appearance on Doctors: I was going to be getting a lot of attention and I was going to have to turn it all down. This was [...]

This time every year, I get an enormous urge to be decadent. Not to over-spend or anything: mainly, just to eat fruit and drink wine in the sunshine. It isn’t a lot to ask, but I live in Britain. Chasing the sun is the preserve of the uber-rich or the package holideer. I can handle [...]

Yes, that was me on Doctors yesterday. I played Cait, the all-driving, all-knitting sex-line lady. I am finally in a soap. Just one episode, but as far as I’m concerned, I’m in. It’s really exciting because, as I understand it, this opens up a whole new world of celebrity to me from which I’ve been [...]

I have a husband now. I also have my health, great friends and even a hilarious cocker spaniel. If this were the 50s, I would wish for nothing further than a functioning oven. But it’s not and I’m not sure how functional my oven is because I usually just use the grill.

As you know, I love a good moan. The wonderful Trish Byrne (read her very funny bloggage here) has summed up my blogs as “cheery cynicism”. I guess she’s right. I am cheery but I am also deeply, deeply cynical I try to see the positive in a situation but experience, age and a predisposition [...]