The car is right up my backside. I’m doing 30mph in a 30mph zone, yet I’ve watched the car gaining steadily on me for the...
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‘There’s an ice cream van in the village,’ Andy interrupted long overdue hoovering to inform me of this surprising development. The village has one street...
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We were snowbound in Devon this week; the first time we’ve ever been hemmed in by the snow. The weather clearly has a sense of...
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After years of living in climates where autumn sort of shuffled in rather than announce itself by parading a flamboyant burst of rich colours, we’re...
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For more than a decade, I’ve been writing about living in another country in one format or another. Initially it involved shenanigans on Tenerife, and...
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A week ago it was 5C in our kitchen first thing in the morning, rising to a balmy 7/8C by midday. The kitchen wasn't the...
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When things aren't the way they should be, something occupies a space it normally wouldn't, our brains lock onto it like a homing missile, even...
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