For once, it is not my fault that I didn’t write a post last week. Nor was it the young master’s fault. The internet went down mid draft and after much fiddling on my husband’s part and much emailing and phoning on the son-in-law’s part, the delivery of a new but unnecessary hub and several […]

I am addicted to my daily newspaper and feel that the day has never really begun until I’ve had a quick swish through its crackling sheets. Two of my favourite columns are titchy little things of modest pretensions, which I might well overlook were it not for their reliably occupying  the same place in the […]