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…

It was my last year of primary school and I was over 12yrs. I was about to join the realms of the teens. I also had this enourmous school crush on this girl in my English class, I liked her so much. It is a difficult time when you are in puberty isn’t it. I mean your voice is breaking, all these new hormones and stuff…

Thursday was Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday. Adding to this is the bonus of the 150th anniversary of the first publication of his Origin of the Species. It just goes to show that you can still achieve something of merit in older age, although that said he did delay the publication for years for fear of his wife’s religious…

Trouser terror in the holy land.

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…

Here’s my list of the top 10 best things on the internet you may not of heard of. You wont find you tube on here but some of the more quirky and useful things found on the net.

Pants and vests… They always remind me of a peculiar time in my life when we were made to strip down to these nefarious undergarments, don plimsoles and run around the playground. They called it ‘P.E.’, which I understand stands for ‘Physical Education’. If running in circles is educating, then puppies must be far…

"Now, look ‘ere you kids. Wot I sez is this ‘ere, there are two sides to a piece of sandpaper, the rough and the smooth, and so far it’s been my misfortune to experience rather more of the rough than the smooth, I can tell yer!”

This weekend, I had to house sit my girlfriends place, ominous I know, but that is not the issue here. The fact that there was no food in the house is also not the issue as shopping is done on weekends. So I had to shop myself. It’s cool, I am quite capable of shopping, I even enjoy it, plus its a lovely walk…

The events that led up to my broken foot are hazy, but probably involved ninjas. The following is a reconstruction.