Regular readers will know I absolutely love cookery of any kind. In fact, as I get older I get almost as excited about cookware and kitchenalia as I do about new clothes and shoes! As it was half-term last week, I went to London for a bit of early Christmas shopping. I’m not usually so [...]
Be a judge in the fantastic Interflora Father’s Day competition
I remember so well pinning up on the fridge the sweet pictures the children did. I also remember those hilarious conversations that went something like this. Me: “Gosh, what a lovely dinosaur you’ve drawn. You are clever.” Child: “It’s not a dinosaur, it’s you.” My children were always handing in at school the most hilarious [...]
Stars and rainbows of colour at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
One of the absolute highlights of my year is a visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. For me it heralds the start of summer. This year I was lucky enough to spend two days there. I fell in love with a number of gardens and while I thought the much-publicised Pyramid was a little [...]
Revealed: the funniest April Fools pranks of 2012
I find I have to take everything with a pinch of salt on April 1st, I’m never quite sure whether I’m falling for another April Fools joke. It’s happened before – I almost believed that self-peeling potatoes really had been invented. Here’s a round up of some of the best April Fools jokes I came [...]
Room for improvement?
Bizarrely, in my opinion, a political think tank has suggested in a report that older people might be incentivised to move out of their family homes to make way for younger people to move in. The report – by the Intergenerational Foundation – revealed that there are more than 18 million surplus bedrooms in the [...]