So I found my way to the school’s talk on internet safety last night. It was for parents with kids in primary seven or first year of high school. And now more than 24 hours later I’m dithering about what to write. On the one hand (if the speakers were to be believed) the web […]
I hate house work more with each passing day
Today I got a new thing of wonder – a tablet computer gizmo. It’s, frankly, astounding. It plays videos, goes online, connects me with everyone and even turns itself into a book at bedtime. It takes pictures and tells me where I should be and when.For those of us old enough to remember the first […]
Where should we go on holiday this year?
Pic: bear with me. We’ve been thinking about the summer here at the Palace of Bundance. With a few measly rays of sunshine and the occasional snowdrop, it does actually seem that it’s possible we’ll get there. Wearing shorts and going sock-less doesn’t seem like a crazy fantasy any longer. And this year, we’d quite […]
Please understand the dudgeon merchants of the Daily Mail
There can hardly be an internet-surfing tweeter/tweep/whatever in Britain who wasn’t sent a link yesterday to a story by the Daily Mail’s Jan Moir. Ooooh outrage. Before you run off to google it, I’ll tell you what she was on about. She was pouring bile on celebs who tweeted their sympathy for Amanda Holden at […]
I could probably rule the world if it wasn’t for this
I have a technorati rating of 415 which apparently is nearly half way to being blooming marvellous. I’ve just been followed on Twitter by Martha Stewart without following her first. And I have two contracts to sign this week. However, it doesn’t matter what I do I can’t make this go away for more than […]