I’m not really a joiny-in kind of person but I like the idea of Tara’s Gallery. She suggests a theme, you go off and take pictures and somehow, the magic pixies of the internet join it all together. This week she threw ‘men’ up in the air, not literally, you understand. I wasn’t really going […]
Husband of the Year Show
When we’re not giving razor-sharp analysis* of the hot current affairs and media issues or discussing literature or music, the Panther of News and I occasionally indulge in flights of fancy. Hard to believe, I know. The latest I must admit was a little one-sided. I was telling the Panther of News how he is […]
Buckets, baths and boring grown-ups
Farage, Lembit, Nubo, Clegg, Burley and pakora
New words for my dictionary this week.Hurrahumph – this is what happens when you pretend you aren’t even ever so slightly slightly miffed at not being shortlisted for an award such as The Mads. But then you see the high calibre of the shortlistees and make this noise. It’s no wonder you weren’t included. Take […]
Briefly beachy, tackling issue and a bored boy
Things I’ve learned from my children today. Some things make getting up early on a Saturday worthwhile. This morning Boy Two’s team, coached in part by the Panther of News, was playing at 9am at Gourock’s Battery Park. (I was going to say ably coached, but this morning the PoN was looking slightly less than […]
Towering ambition, knotty stuff and funny old tubes
Things I’ve learned from my children today. Competition is hard-wired. Boy Two had Little Friend D over to play yesterday during the jolly polling day holiday. The boys had a lot of noisy and violent fun together. Over supper the conversation turned to whose dad had gone higher up the Eiffel Tower. “Mine went to […]
Disco biscuits, being grumpy and TWATs
Other things I’ve learned today. An election is exciting for journalists. The Panther of News had a spring in his step this morning when he headed off to work. He’ll doubtless be facing the usual pictures of polling stations in remote pubs, with sheep, the great and the good voting and the ‘hilarious’ lengths folk […]