It's months since I first heard about "Fifty Shades of Grey", the recent publishing phenomenon. As you might expect, anyone who gets a result with self-publication tends to catch my [...]

Show minus six months - the Upstagers' panto, a nine show run involving all six of us, finishes and the Clarks are buzzing. The next one is for seniors only so [...]

My course is over for the summer and so, instead of spending my time reading other people's books, it's time to turn my attention to my own. I began book [...]

When I was a child, my parents acquired a beautiful old piano and arranged for a musical friend of my mum's to teach me how to play it. I was [...]

Sixty is the new forty we're told. Women are no longer shackled by clothing conventions of the past and can get away with whatever they fancy wearing. It seems that [...]

Who'd be the First Born?Well, me actually. I came first with all my parents' hopes, fears and aspirations clinging to my back like the proverbial monkey. I blazed those trails. [...]

I love to watch fish swim. I find it calming. They move so gracefully. There are no sharp corners or emergency stops and they all seem to anticipate everyone else's [...]

So the Easter holidays are over and everyone has gone back to school. As usual, I check over the diary for the coming weeks to see what I need to [...]

I've just finished reading a book about a Ukrainian emigrant, her experience in the war and later in her new life in America (The Silence of Trees). In it, the [...]