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It was while preparing a funeral for a much-loved lady, that I first heard the phrase; ‘She was a radiator not a drain’, which instantly gave me a vivid sense […]
It was while preparing a funeral for a much-loved lady, that I first heard the phrase; ‘She was a radiator not a drain’, which instantly gave me a vivid sense […]
I’ve long thought that simply saying to someone ‘Don’t worry’, is both pointless and infuriating. If only it were that easy to switch off our anxiety. Besides, there’s sometimes good […]
Foreign Languages are not a strength of mine. My schoolgirl French is pitiful and my brief efforts at German have dwindled to a single, decidedly odd, phrase: ‘Ich habe keine […]
Heading off on holiday I looked for a diverting novel and landed upon Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth, a best seller of 20 years ago, which was appealingly reviewed as ‘chick lit […]