When the day starts with me getting my make-up done sitting next to Susie Dent (as the commoners know her), I know I’m on to a good thing. And there are no airs and graces here. She chats away and couldn’t be friendlier. Then my make-up artist and I chat about potential baby names (she… Read More Behind the magic curtain-my version of events!
After the whole #Oscarssowhite uproar of last year everything seemed very multicultural this year and liberals everywhere could go away thinking in Oscars land at least, all is generally right with the world. And I’m not one to put a dampener on things but just this once I will. In 2016, the African American Nate… Read More He’s Batman
How easy is it to invent a word and get it into the dictionary? My offering is ‘dunch’. We all get brunch, well this is it’s later cousin, between lunch and dinner, usually had before a first date because you’re not sure you can stomach the excruciating agony of sitting down for a whole meal… Read More The Great British Dunch Off
I know someone who tells me he looks like a certain Hollywood star. If you see this man in London (or Hollywood) please inform him he looks nothing like Mark Wahlberg. I look more like Mark Wahlberg than him, my cat does! Unless Mark Wahlberg looks nothing like Mark Wahlberg off set and that’s just… Read More Mark Wahlberg is secretly living in London
I remember as a child ‘playing out’, going out unsupervised and playing football with the other kids on the street with no adults around and only coming in at night when it was so dark we couldn ‘t see the ball anymore. If someone had invented a glow in the dark ball we’d probably have… Read More Are we depriving our children of the opportunity to think for themselves? Do we over-coach part one
Yes, especially when we churn out set phrases. Every sentence that begins with I don’t want to be disrespectful but…will be followed by something disrespectful, see also I’m not being sexist but and I’m not being racist but… If you’ve got to start the sentence with one of these introductions, chances are it’s not a… Read More Are we all liars?
Has the world gone mad? There are now so many answers to this question it’s unbelievable but let’s focus on Brexit. Remainers didn’t know what would happen if we left so weren’t sure what they were voting against just that it appeared less savoury than the status quo. Leavers weren’t sure what they were going to… Read More Has the world gone mad part one? What’s that coming over the hill..?#GoldilocksBrexit
The first piece on the homeless got the most comments so it would have been rude not to follow up. The Wenger piece got the fewest and wasn’t my best work so, on my website, if not in real life, Arsene Wenger is no more. So please keep the comments and likes coming and thanks… Read More What are we really doing about the homeless part two
I’m on the overground, doing the usual: minding my own business, reading a comic (Superman since you ask, even though I HATE HIM!) not letting kids sit down (because when did adults start doing that anyway?) like I say, the usual and then a guy gets on and starts begging. Straight away he says he’s not… Read More What are we really doing about the homeless? My fight with a homeless guy
Who do we stand up for on trains and tubes? I had this conversation with an ex of mine because I was amazed that adults were now standing up for kids. I didn’t get that memo and I’d have thrown it away if I had. When I was a kid (back in the 40s!) it… Read More Random musings-what happened to the world part one
I went into a shop a while ago and bought some packets of crisps. It’s worth mentioning as I don’t buy crisps often and they were Nandos peri peri chicken flavour so I thought ‘why not try something different?’ I’ll tell you why not, they cost 69p! 69p! Now I know the days when crisps cost a… Read More When Nandos is the expensive option
Random musings on life 