• (My latest column for the ME Association’s magazine on life as a carer for someone with ME/CFS) Our lives are often governed by routines, [...]

  Getting back in the (old) new routine

  January 23, 2012
• I revisited my 40 List recently after a social media friend revealed he was hurtling towards his own 40th birthday. His status updates suggested [...]

  Happy distractions

  January 21, 2012
• I like Lichfield. I enjoy living in the city. It isn’t perfect, but then nowhere is. Indeed, some of its failings are universal and not [...]

  Should ye olde city fight back against an attack of the clones?

  January 13, 2012
• I have been on tenterhooks for 48 hours, perched on the edge of my seat waiting for one particular reaction to one of the week’s bigger [...]

  Good comments are like trains, you wait for ages then…

  January 12, 2012

• A new year and another new cookery contest airs on our TV screens The twist in the Fabulous Baking Boys on C4 is that the contest is between two [...]

  I’m not just irritated, I’m super irritated by the baking brothers

  January 5, 2012