

Culture or just mouldy bread?
Leeuwarden City of culture 2018 .. I will admit when I first heard that my home town was named as a city of culture I laughed. Well it...

No happy new year for me.
So that’s it, it’s all over, you’ve had your turkey and your mince pies you might have even watched the Queen on tv. The wrapping paper...


Keep it special, keep it in December
Don’t blame the shops for starting early if you are the one filling your basket with Christmas cake and eating it all before Guy Fawkes has


Love the difference
My husband, Murphy the dog, Basil the parrot and I have just returned from a week’s holiday. We stayed in a wooden chalet on the edge of...


Love is black and white
Love is black and white. Or at least it is in our house. Love is also hairy and goes by the name of Murphy. Because for me love is a...


Are you rich and successful?
Success and riches. What is the first and how do we define the second? Some people, in fact the majority of people have been conditioned...


One positive thing.
These days I find that there is so much hate and misery around and its really sad. People are moaning just for the sake of it and...


No New Year's resolution for me...
Around this time of year people start asking you what your new year’s resolution will be; well I don’t ever make them. I won’t lie, or...


There's a nip in the air..
Its seems the summer has hardly started and yet the autumn is now creeping in. For me the end of the summer is marked by a fantastic...


Worthless or priceless?
What price a memory? Today would have been my father’s birthday and so of course my thoughts have turned toward him these last few days....