In this life

In the midst of the weekend's trauma (is trauma too strong a word? well...) of our failing to find Daughter 2 a wedding dress, she provi...

Up town today with Daughters 1 and 2 (up from London for the weekend), trying to find a wedding dress for Daughter 2. Complete failure. For...

Oh dear. Poor Christchurch. Poor New Zealand. How very terrible. I do hope that my bloggy friends and their families are as all right as an...

Life is rather trying these days. I know we’re not suffering from famine, flood, fire, earthquake or terminal illness and I’m glad about tha...

It's our two-day mid-term holiday and I've been gardening, though this is not a picture of me. For one thing, I'm rather plumper...

We have a range of students at our college. For example, I asked two classes to write essays about topical issues of their choice. Here are...

The phone rang at 8 o'clock this morning. I answered it. "Wellllllll now," said a voice. "It's myself." (Can yo...

When the young doctor suggested I have a moon boot for my broken ankle, he added, "You know, like the footballers get." At the ti...

Hurray! The Virgin chap came at 8 this evening and we're back on line after 10 days. I've missed you all! And I have LOTS of emails ...

Last Wednesday there was a thunderstorm and since then, we've had no internet at home. I feel very bereft! I can't blog. Sob. Naugh...

How am I supposed to type with Sirius pestering me? Not only is he squeaking piteously like a cat who hasn't seen a morsel of food for.....

Daughter 2 phoned me for a chat yesterday lunchtime as she was having a walk near her office in (very smart) Chelsea. She met a nice cat...

Now, I've worked with young people all my life and I'd like to make it clear that on the whole I like them. I liked them when I was...

We've started the biscuits. Very nice, though it feels a tiny bit wrong to eat a koala. Some self-indulgent pictures of cats. This is ...

A few posts ago I was bewailing (as is my wont - sorry) Daughter 2's departure to London. Whereupon HerHimnBryn of Accept All Offerings...

Extract from a boy's essay in defence of video games: One good point about video games for today’s generation, who spend more time insid...

It’s really quite salutary to be mildly disabled on a temporary basis. It’s changed my behaviour. For example, I find myself planning my mov...

It's not a humorous topic, I know, but a student was giving a very solemn presentation yesterday about AIDS, and he kept on saying that ...

At the fracture clinic, a nice young doctor (who looked about 20 – the world is run by peachy-faced people nowadays, but I suppose this is g...

You may remember that we climbed Blackford Hill on New Year's Day and I slipped and fell on the way down. It was memorably sore but I th...