This year I will win. I will hold the last unopened Easter Egg. Last year it was Claire. And the year before. I don’t think she even likes chocolate. I [...]

I had never really noticed the penguin before. It must have been sitting on that shelf for years, since the children, now long gone, were small. I had an unstable [...]

The two buckets sat side by side on the sand. Mine was blue with a shark on the side but it was a cartoon shark with a smiley face. Gemma’s [...]

‘You don’t like it.’ ‘No. I do. Honestly. It’s just...’What? That it isn’t quite what I was expecting? When she’d mentioned that she was going for a new look I clearly [...]

Life is fast. Fast food. Fast communication. Fast transport. And now fast fiction.It's hardly a new idea. People far more imaginative than I am have been doing it for years. [...]

I think I need a Spring de-clutter.I'm not really talking about my house. I'm quite good at sifting through and getting rid. With six of us living under one roof [...]

We've been in a film. I say we but actually it was my youngest that was in front of the camera whilst I loitered out of shot trying desperately not [...]

Every so often I'll be listening to the radio and someone will say that they like to reread books.  They talk about how they read 'Pride and Prejudice' at least [...]

OK. So this post is going to be unapologetically girly so if you aren't a girl you may wish to look away now. Alternatively you may be just as fond [...]