I will never be Stevie Nicks. An obvious statement but a true one. I will also never be Diane Keaton or Audrey Hepburn. In the past, this has kept me awake and worried at my soul. I am not bohemian, ditzy or gamine. I am me and I lean towards Bette Midler’s stage...
Shake it off! Sometimes you are awake at 4.26am because you’re full of cold and feeling sorry for yourself. You start half heartedly reading the news on your phone because that’s a sensible self-caring thing to do when you stumble across great news that...
Billy Bragg When I met the beloved I told him that I loved him (ours was a whirlwind kind of thing) but he would never own my soul. Three men got their first: Billy Bragg, Bruce Springsteen and Richard Thompson. Luckily, he’s an understanding man. Music...
Three monkeys and Eric & Ernie I was brought up by a Mum who loved The Goons, Billy Connolly and Dave Allen. Comedy was taken seriously. I can, and will if given half a chance, recite Billy’s “Football Violence” complete with dodgy Glaswegian accent. My...
You need to hear me out on this. As step mother to three monkeys keeping them entertained without traumatising them is a fine line. I grew up with male cousins and was forced to watch action and horror movies with them from a young age. It did me no harm… I...
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