SINCE the Man-in-Charge decided that the Offspring were old enough to buy their own Mother’s Day cards and flowers I have received no cards and flowers.Read
WHEN the Offspring were much younger their idea of a great day out was a trip to Hardcastle Crags (near Hebden Bridge) where they’d spend several hours dabbling in the stream, poking things with sticks, collecting stones, climbing trees and getting their clothes dirty.Read
RECOMMENDING books is always a bit risky because what one person believes to be the greatest novel since War and Peace may turn out to be another’s Midnight’s Children.Read
EVER since someone noticed that the haughtily elegant Victoria Beckham had a bunion, the trashier newspapers and magazines have been awash with gleeful stories about her deformed foot.Read
MY TEENAGERS have been raised on the sayings of Father Ted Crilly from which, I hope, they have gleaned a healthy scepticism about organised religion and its manmade trappings.Read
SOMEONE has kindly sent me a copy of The Huddersfield Giants 2010 charity calendar, wittily entitled Scrum-ptious. It took me a while to get the play on words – I’m rubbish at writing headlines.Read
