I have just attended a Zoom meeting of the local Parish Council. The Boris/Cummings planning changes proposed are going down like a cup of cold sick with the local Conservative councillors. Boris see… (View Post)

I've just had a chugger come round for the local hospice. He wasn't wearing a mask. I resisted the temptation to ask if he was trying to drum up business. (View Post)

My husband often laughs at me for watching TV quiz shows but I say they are a useful guide to public perception. At least 3 times I have seen a contestant answer the question: "Name a Post-War B… (View Post)

In the 1960s my family was due to have a holiday in the Netherlands but the weather was foul so after crossing the Channel, we had a last minute change of plan. We set off for Paris and put the car o… (View Post)

I just done that thing of taking my age away from the date of my birth and realised that Gladstone was PM then. I now feel really really really old. (View Post)