I am old enough to remember when British cooking wasnt at all imaginative and when something as pedestrian as Spag Bol was dangerously Avant Garde We went on holiday to Italy for the first time in th… (View Post)

I feel that Johnny Depp and Amber are the Thomas and Jane Carlyle of our days in that by marrying each other they made two people unhappy rather than four. (View Post)

What about Shami? Is she going to lose her peerage? (View Post)

We had goose once. My husband fumbled with the tray getting it out of the oven and we ended up with goose fat everywhere in the kitchen and an expensive pair of shoes ruined. (View Post)

I loved Ruth Rendell but I felt she went off the boil with her last few books; I was disappointed with "The Saint Zita Society". "Judgement in Stone" remains my favourite. (View Post)