Oh! The Places You’ll Go!by the incomparable Dr. Seuss Congratulations!Today is your day.You’re off to Great Places!You’re off and away! You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourself any direction you choose.You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where […]

Here amid the builders’ debris and bones with Panther tooth marks on them we’ve been enjoying the new STV drama Cracked. It’s about the residents of a private rehab clinic and how they, and their disparate dysfunctions, interact. The couple, Rory and Louise, who run the clinic, are fighting their own battles as their daughter, […]

Who is Willy Nilly?A perfectly reasonable question from Boy One, but I couldn’t give him an answer that satisfied him.“It’s not anyone, it’s a figure of speech.”“But it must have been someone, mustn’t it?”Must it? Any Nillys out there prepared to shed some light?

Boy One just asked if he could get a set of Ross Kemp in Afghanistan Lego for his birthday. Someone has missed a trick somewhere.

Tilda Swinton. Not only has she collected a best supporting actress Oscar without losing her cool or gushing on and on, but for seeming to have it all. She’s got a successful film career which appears to be picking up as most 47 year old actresses are slowing down. She lives in a fabulous mansion […]