Once again, I will be marching on Saturday to demand a People’s Vote and this time the march will be even bigger because it is led by young people whose voices were ignored two years ago. After almost 30 months of negotiations we remain clueless as to what we are […]
OK, so I might be a little biased, but I would say that Rathfinny Estate in East Sussex most definitely offers the best grape picking in the UK these days and it’s only going to get better. My 18 year old son and his girlfriend have just spent two weeks […]
I was invited on the inaugural tour on London’s first 100% electric bus yesterday which was launched by Shirley Rodrigues, London’s Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy. The Original Tour unveiled London’s first ever 100% electric hop-on hop-off open top bus outside Westminster Abbey. Green in colour and concept, it […]
I was invited to attend the 4th Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Conference in London and the situation remains truly terrifying. Of course it’s great to see a committed international response to tackling this complex challenge and to hear that this is the largest conference so far with over 80 governments […]
Today is the first anniversary of the gun massacre in Las Vegas when 58 people were killed by a lone gunman in America’s deadliest mass shooting from the Mandalay Bay hotel. Astonishing to think that Craig Paddock was capable of opening fire from the hotel on a crowd of 22,000 […]
I have spent a lot of time over the last two months slowly bubbling up with indignation and fury at the woeful lack of continuity in my mother’s hospital care and trying to work out how we fix our NHS. She has been in three different NHS hospitals over that […]
I have decided that my mother is the bravest person I have ever met and not because she jumps of buildings or swims with sharks or picks up spiders, but because in a small, quiet way and under extremely difficult circumstances she just carries on, expecting tomorrow to the not […]
This is a very random blog post and the bit about smashing iPads is at the bottom, if that’s the only bit you’re interested in. The rest is on sticky back plastic and toothbrushes, so I would just scroll down if I were you. YAY I have been doing a […]
I am attempting the new advice from the CEO of Public Health England for two alcohol free days (well nights really) a week being in the relevant age category of 45-65. Mainly because I have spent the summer enjoying my rosé tinted glasses and need a bit of a detox. […]
The last days of summer are here. I don’t want it to be over yet as it feels as if I’m only just getting in the swing of it now and I’m not ready for autumn. That uber hot bit earlier in the summer didn’t work very well for me […]
A sure sign that things are not great is when I start listening to classical music in the car. There is most definitely a level of melancholy in my world if the theme from Schindler’s List is more relevant than the theme from Grease (just the music, not the stories […]
I give up. Honestly. I’ve decided that my parenting hasn’t made much of a difference at all to the way my children have turned out and despite the nature vs nurture debate, I suspect they have been more influenced by their DNA and their individual personality types. Does parenting matter? […]
World Elephant Day is on Sunday 12th August and is essentially a day designed to not only raise awareness about the plight of elephants, but to celebrate them for the magnificent and vitally important animals they are. My favourite animal on the planet:- I discussed the current situation with Dr […]
