In a bun dance

If I'm going to get something, I usually get it in spades - luck (both kinds), children, clutter, dirty laundry, bright ideas, daft ideas...

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“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

blowing in the wind

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Apparently Boris Johnson’s favourite word is carminative – which is to do with relieving the effects of flatulence. Interesting choice.

It’s not fair

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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 […]

A question of evil

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Things are happening in the Maddie McCann case in Portugal. Mother Kate has been interviewed by detectives and there’s talk of blood found in hire cars.Now there’s a new question for the watching world – which is the bigger horror, a mysterious bogieman snatching innocent kiddies from their beds or a parent with deceitful heart […]

a little lamb

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The Panther turned his hand to culinary matters and produced a lovely supper.Pan fried lamb steaks with a mint and rosemary gravy and sweet potato mash. He’s a bit of a dab hand in the kitchen, it has to be said. But good meat really makes a difference and ours came from donaldrussell.co.uk.

The future

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Our kids might be setting out on careers we can’t guess at and certainly won’t understand. Boy One is already ahead of the game – he wants to be a Pokemon trainer. Once he establishes his Renfrewshire-based Pokemon empire, I get to clean up the poo and look after everyone or so he tells me. […]

The chalk face

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By the time Boy Two – who has just started school – is grown up, half of his class will take jobs which have not yet been invented. It was parents’ night and the head teacher was sharing a few thoughts. She was trying to explain that things had changed a bit since we all […]

X rated

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How cruel is this? You get a child – a girl who’s not very streetwise from somewhere off the beaten track. She’s just 14 and doesn’t look a day over 12. In the face of old-before-their-time teenagers, her naivete is touching. She’s a pretty good singer with a powerful, if immature, voice. Her proud and […]