Norton Priory

Norton Priory

Some days Perkin Flump is your spirit animal.   “The water is too lumpy. The floor is too wet and sloshy. And the porridge is too loud. It’s a too much morning.”   On days like this you need a day out but on too much mornings that’s...
Thursday Tune

Thursday Tune

Life’s A Happy Song by The Muppets   Indulge me it’s my anniversary. On day 10 of our relationship we decided we must use this in our wedding. We did. We are big eejits. We are very happy that way.  
Three years ago…

Three years ago…

So three years ago today I met the husband. We met online after I experienced a short but enlightening period of internet dating. The puppeteer, the foot fetishists and the leader of men are fodder for my future sitcom. The husband was different. He used his real...
Daniel Radcliffe – rap star

Daniel Radcliffe – rap star

There are somethings that are guaranteed to cheer me up. These are things that I will rave about and try to show you on my phone in a pub with no wifi when I’m squiffy.   This is one of them. Daniel Radcliffe rapping Blackalicious ‘Alphabet...
Park Life

Park Life

Despite growing up in a Liverpool council house, early years reading Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie convinced me that I should be living a charmed existence of midnight feasts and picnics in wicker hampers with silverware and crystal glasses. My family did nothing to...