It is all rather amazing and dreadfully disappointing to me. There have been basically no responses or thoughts of sympathy to my November 13, 2019 blog. All the people who read me and know how…
I readily admit that I am addicted to the “Sultan with the Prinark Bag” Every day I Google the Crown Prince of Dubai with delight and am gifted with images of him, his handsomeness and…
Writing yesterday’s blog was the hardest thing I have ever done – for so many reasons. I was reliving the trauma, I was afraid (naturally) that exposing the facts of that night would place me…
This is the story of an attack levied upon the person of Alexis McBride on the evening of March 18, 2019. It had all of the earmarks of a murder planned and executed by a…
As readers may know, I am a bit daft. Its polite synonyms are daft, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, risible; idiotic, stupid, foolish, foolhardy, unwise, imprudent, ill-conceived, silly, inane, puerile, infantile, fatuous, imbecilic, hare-brained, half-baked;…
Today there are reservations for lunch at the Rex Whistler. Somehow, and for undisclosed reasons, numbers are tracked by their computer and it was announced that this would be my fiftieth. Now that his pretty…
A front page article from the November 11, 2019 Times caught my eye: Shy Society…half of us are shrinking violets. Greg Hurst writes: “British reserve is as as much a part of the national stereotype…
I am about to make an admission. What is that, an admission? There is more than one meaning but for the purposes of this blog it is a statement acknowledging the truth of something, for…
Pyjamas in case anyone wonders are: a loose-fitting jacket and trousers for sleeping. It is Sunday, it is London, it is Pyjamas Day, it is glorious. I love having a day like this, relaxing, inspiring,…
It is Sunday morning and it has been eventful – one of my hot water bottles sprung a leak and there is water all over the bed. Fortunately it is a big bed and so…