Tis the season of goodwill to all men and don’t-mind-if-we-bring-the-deadline-forward-do-you to all freelancers. Consequently, it’ll be a bit quiet on the blog for a week or so.I just can’t be expected to think up funny things to write while filing copy early, making shepherd costumes, keeping the house clean and forgetting what I’ve ordered for […]

Bravo to Nintendo for Cooking Mama. My sons can now make virtual pizza. Although I couldn’t work out why CM wanted to serve it with rice. I’m all for anyone grasping the Big Cook Little Cook baton and running with it. The more kids know about cuisine which doesn’t come in a little paper bag […]

“Don’t call it ugly, it’s brilliant.”As I was just saying to Jeremy the other day…http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article2406279.ece

It was all No 1 son’s idea. He had a bit of a thing going about dinosaurs and had read somewhere – and there wasn’t much he hadn’t read on the subject – that Nessie might have been a neglected plesiosaur lurking in the loch. So there was nothing else for it but to go […]

That’s it – all the birthday fun is over except for scratching the midge bites.It’s been fantastic and I am really chuffed that I have such lovely friends and family. The last round of the oldageathon was a weekend at the Barn in Borrowdale. We used to visit the Barn as kids – my previous […]