What Not To Buy For Christmas
Everyone has a drawer of dud gifts for recycling. Don't they? In my drawer are quite a few crystal angels with the power to heal - allegedly. These were given by people who like [...]
Everyone has a drawer of dud gifts for recycling. Don't they? In my drawer are quite a few crystal angels with the power to heal - allegedly. These were given by people who like [...]
I have an inherent fear of snakes. Even the most innocuous of grass snakes assumes the status of an anaconda in my imagination. As a child, I sought out the privacy of a large [...]
A conversation about unemployment rates amongst disabled people of working age reminded me, not only how lucky I have been, but of the sheer lunacy of prejudice. If it weren't quite so serious it [...]
Weirdly, I quite like walking uphill. There is no denying that age, expanding girth and lack of fitness make this more of a challenge than for the younger, thinner and fitter, but as my [...]
My hosts were in their usual good form. The food was excellent. The wine was flowing and the slow gin homemade. The conversation was about the local fishmonger and the aspirations of young adult [...]
I like to think I am a woman in my prime. The evidence does not necessarily support this position. There are those that think I have the technology skills of an Edwardian, retaining something [...]
I was in a pizza restaurant dithering over what to chose. "My God," said my newest colleague. "Your eye sight is terrible. You should go to Pakistan and get that fixed. My wife had [...]
There are lots of apples falling off the tree in next doors garden. There is an abundance of windfalls, in my garden, that the local wildlife like to avail themselves of. In my efforts [...]
Being a fugitive from justice is a stressful experience. I know, because I experienced this. I experienced it briefly, just for a nano-second, in the REM dream state that most of us experience just [...]
I love technology: I love the oven, the kettle, the toaster. I loved the TV I grew up with. That's the one that had an enormous "V" shaped areal that extended out of the [...]