We’ve currently got a pine-scented bathroom. You’d think that would be a good think, wouldn’t you?But it’s not the fresh bracing pine of the spring-time Alpine slopes, it’s badly kept timber yard in the rain pine. This is because during Thursday night’s storm something bashed into the window in the roof.Now every time it rains […]

Sigh. Groan.Sigh.“I’m depressed.”“What’s up?”“Liverpool lost/ interest rates have gone up/ my party dress doesn’t fit any more/ I’ve got grey hair/ SNP can’t afford their promises/ it’s nearly Christmas/ Scotland are playing international football soon/ the Spice Girls are reuniting/ Ulrika’s up the duff again. Never mind, let’s have another gin.”It happens quite often – […]

Luciano Pavarotti died this week at 71. Fans of every stripe lined up to offer suitable tributes. An enormous talent who will be missed.My strongest emotion was one of resentment. Pavarotti’s family – his widow Nicoletta and daughters Lorenza, Christina, Guilian and Alice – had him for six more years than we had Dad. I […]

At the moment my life is one long Lenor ad. I am very very happy with my new washing machine – it gets things clean, they smell nice and they dry quickly. Eventually, I zealously believe, the eczema will go too.