Coping with the big scare
Here’s some real advice about You Know What that actually seems more useful than some of the statements dominating the media and rather a lot of conversations about the present-day plague.
Did someone say the third of March?
Days of the month just happen maybe, but not so the third of March - today - for me. One is the memory of a super happening, and one very scary indeed.
Quaffing pancakes for 600 years - at least
It's pancake day today so it goes without saying that you'll have enjoyed one (or two) of these delights.
The trick of keeping Tricky Dicky's laws going
Aren’t politicians coy when it comes to drugs – and drink? If you live in UK, tonight’s news will remind you of the capitalistic approach to drugs selling (not that it is put quite that way), and the worry about large numbers - almost 25,000 - sleeping on the streets here.
Leaping up for a cry in the night
I had hardly fallen asleep when a woman's scream filled the bedroom. Perhaps inspired by some knight of old, I leaped from under the duvet ready to come to the aid of the fair maiden.
