Snow day! Hurray! So what shall we do with this momentous occasion where we are forced by public transport not go to work? Umm… I guess we’ll work from home.Technology: it hasn’t evolved enough to cope with snow, but has to enable us to work from home. I’ve had design files FTP’d to me and logged in on the…

Trouser terror in the holy land.

I don’t claim to be an expert on dating, so read this with a pinch of salt. To be honest, at one point I was really rubbish at it, and thanks to these rules, I am a lot better now. It is strange to find out though that there are some dudes out there that are really crap with girls and haven’t bothered to fix themselves.…

Power cut in Bexley and Dartford - where’s the news coverage?

A very personal story about how far kindness can go ... literally.

The thing is, I enjoy a good pint down at the pub and listen to my buddies tell me their stories, especially the rare and funny ones that bring the tears and you wake up the next day with a sore stomach. Well, one day at work, doing something that was important I guess, I forget now, my mind started…

After eight months of travelling Europe and Australia with my best friend Joe we’ve finally split. Tonight’s my first night of solo travel. As I sit outside a train station in Sydney, Australia, I think I’d better meet some new friends and as an old man takes the spot next to me on my bench, I figure this is as good…

Petals floated softly down like snowy feathers,To silently embrace the earth with  furtive frozen kisses.Things familiar shyly shape-shifted,  huddling under cover; to hide undiscovered until thaw time.So, winter blossom  fell with the falling…

Being the proud mother of three exceptionally gifted offspring, I had the daily school run to contend with.  My eldest was collected by school bus to be whisked off to the the wondrous regions of outstanding school wizardry and I was left to deposit my remaining two (equally wondrous) enfant terribles to their…

Although I am not young by youthful  estimations I enjoy a pretty ecletic musical range.  So why should I be pigeon holed as an "oldie".  I like Green Day, Placebo, Elbow, Arcade Fire,Ting tings, Muse, plus classic bands like Pink Floyd and White Stripes and  a whole load  of stuff…