The Girl Who Should Know Better.

A lot of comment has passed, not just in England and Wales but globally, in what has been referred to as the McNally case (formally known as...

Happy birthday to me. And yes, I survived it. After that I've been busy, a clash of reports, exams, evaluations, and everything else. I ...

Hello, I'm back with a working broadband connection and if I were hiring a comedian for the PFA awards I might check their act before ra...

Oi tranny's! Fed up with listening to professional opinion or your own knowledge and experience. Why not have a diagnosis from a complet...

  Julie Livesey photographed, above, with her sculpture "White Horse Pacified" just after completion in 1987. It stood clearly v...

It's been a noisy, crowded time here in Lucie towers. I painted a room pink, then suddenly a lot of women turned up and started dancing....

As the readers reader editor of the Park South Bugle it was understandable that they failed to realise that employing a very provocative, ab...

A happy new year. Normally at this time I would make some foolish predictions and hopeless resolutions for 2013, instead I'll just e...

I have three loud, excitable and incredibly wonderful nieces and nephews to buy gifts for. So recently I've stumbled into the unfamili...

Ah December, early nights, seasonal songs in the shops and the incessant blast of Christmas ads. There is nothing more likely to suck t...

Just come back from the Co-op between the large Christmas display and Halloween items I'm grateful they still have enough space to sto...

I've held off commenting on the demise of The Dandy's print edition because as Charlie Brooker pointed out in his Guardian column re...

Opposite Marlborough Common on a lane leading to the hilly beauty of the Marlborough Downs, where assorted horsey and other rural types li...

A few weeks school inspector's from the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) released a report into bullying at school entitled No...

Time for the bloody-hell-have-I-really-had-a-blog-for-that-long moment when I realise I started this blog five years ago. There's b...