Column: Hot air

  Do you remember that scene in rom-com Love Actually when Hugh Grant as PM snubbed the entire USA because the president chatted up his…

A careless whisper in the background of my …

Thank you for the music George.  You can’t escape his music following his passing. For me this means an emotional rollercoaster of memories.. Read more…

Column: Soundtrack to my life

It’s taken until now for me to realise the true impact that the music and lyrics of the late George Michael’s work has had upon…

Column: Scrumdiddlyumptious 2017

Happy new year  Last night my car was broken into. Not a stellar moment for 2016, which has been sadly lacking in stellar moments altogether,…

Happy New Year to my favourites (that’s …

I just wanted to wish you and yours a happy and successful 2017. A new year is a chance to wash everything clean and have…

Column: I am now the owner of a …

It has come to my attention that for the decade-plus that I’ve been a columnist in various newspapers,I have been unable to resist the annual…

Column: Ah, 2016..

Ah, 2016, you still have a month and half to go and already you have proved yourself a tricky,memorable , cruel companion. If you were…