Impeccable Table Manners

Yes, it's still January! The same year, 2023, that's right! As we head toward the vinegar strokes of one of...

Another year? We have to do this again? They just keep on… coming. 2022 felt very much like the final...

As Dina Carroll famously once trilled, 'It's New Year's Eve and hopes are high' – what better way to dash...

I turned 47 yesterday. Turned. Like milk. I don't really care about being older – it's pretty pointless to lament...

As Santa changes the batteries in Rudolph's nose, and the rest of us ask whichever higher power we believe in...

I'm sitting at my desk underneath two blankets with only a cup of tea for warmth – shall we crack...

December! The Christmas lights are on (for only two hours a day now you've got a smart meter), your winter...

The GBD is enjoying something of a rainbow renaissance, thank goodness – always slightly more fun to read about a...

Lots going on this week. Let's talk about absolutely none of it. Instead, say hello (in your head, don't say...

In a week where it's felt like we're living in a reality TV show that's just been taken over by...