Is there an organization that tapes the historical memories of old people?I will be having a New Year's meal with my parents and their friends, two of whom are spookily linked by Concentration Camps...
I feel like Inspector Clouseau with Cato. Our new kitten ambushes me at every opportunity and has even caused me to drop a hot cup of tea on the stairs by leaping at my ankles, or just taking a swipe...
I love August And Everything After by The Counting Crows, but not one of my friends, or any member of my family likes this album. Do you have a favourite album or track that drives everyone else...
I recently moved into a new property and have a blank canvass of a garden on which to grow this year.I hate ordered gardens with straight rows of pansies and the like and would love a garden centred...
I'm going to read the Pied Piper of Hamelin to my girls tonight and would like to know some of the background to the story. Was it really based upon the Children's Crusade?
One of my daughters has a friend staying for a sleepover and this lovely little girl has never had a bedtime story. She adored it, but its left me wondering if I'm old fashioned. Do many other parents...
I'm not giving up anything this year, but I am determined to do a parachute jump. I'm fed up with my 'giving up' failures of the past and intend to adopt a more positive 'must do' approach this year....
How can Sainsburys justify increasing the price of a 500gram pot of Greek Style Natural yoghurt from 49p to 78p in a week?I took my two daughters shopping and bought 3 of these pots. I didn't notice...
When my girls are older, I hope they read Jane Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Trollope, but what books would similarly 'pushy mums' have encouraged their children to read before these...
What is your favourite catchphrase of the year? Or any other year for that matter. I always smile to myself when I think of Catherine Tate's, 'How very dare you!!'
I've been catching up on my celebrity reading and am amazed at the number of partners some celebrity women have had. I don't consider myself a prude and admit to having bedded three males between 17...
A senior Olympic official, Alex Gilady (Israel) believes London only won the Olympics in 2012 because of an error in the penultimate round of voting.The 'stray' vote should have gone to Madrid, which...
My girls are getting a ginger kitten for Christmas (I've seen her and she's adorable) and I would like some ideas for a name. My elder daughter is crazy about Boudicca and the Iceni and there is no...
My elder daughter is obsessed with Boudicca and would like to know the name of the special hairstyle adopted by Celtic and Iceni warriors before battle. It's a plait that hangs over the right or left...
If you could magically transform yourself into another person, who would you choose to be?I am very shy, so pretend to be Sigourney Weaver in business meetings and when I meet new people. It helps me...
It would appear none of the forty three police forces in England and Wales have agreed to merge and the Association of Police Authorities have described the merger plans as flawed.I would be...
