Harlot is such a wonderfully evocative word. ‘Housewife’ equally so but in a different way. And ‘heroines’ could cover each of these or something else entirely. Dr Lucy Worsley’s latest excursion into Restoration Girl Power, Harlots, Housewives & Heroines: A 17th Century… Read more →
Ice cream scoop! Mixing career with entertainment probably works if you want a career in entertainment. Well, obviously it does if you want to be an actor, TV presenter or musician, but since when did those reporting on the entertainment become the… Read more →
When you’re brought up on a mixture of fairytales of wolves that speak, trolls that live under bridges, and monkeys that fly, seeing a landscape such as that in Iceland coupled with tales of stunning lakes that make people pass out and… Read more →
Here’s my guilty secret. I love property porn. By that I mean I love watching property shows, I love pawing over the adverts in Latest Homes each week, I love fantasy shopping for a new home that varies with my mood and… Read more →
News that moving out of the Big Smoke and grabbing yourself some fresh air and recognisable neighbours is rather nice and hardly a revelation to the residents of East Sussex. Having a pal that was born and bred in this area is… Read more →
Before Tim Burton entertained children and adults alike with the macabre, the dangerous and the devilishly detailed, Roald Dahl was doing it for absolutely ages! And he was doing it fabulously. Not beholden to the screen of somebody else’s imagination, Dahl’s monstrosities… Read more →
There has been much made of late over the country at large’s state of education with regards to maths. You know the stuff – people are prepared to admit they’re not too hot at the old mathematics whereas there is a stigma… Read more →
It’s quite good fun coming in at the middle of things. It’s the start of series 4 of Sanctuary and that means a fabulous previous series crescendo putting all of mankind and life as we know it at risk. I like this… Read more →
Sometimes I get so used to watching the telly in the background of the rest of my life I forget that occasionally – just occasionally – it can step to the foreground, quite gracefully stand centre stage and present me with fabulous… Read more →
In familiar surroundings, involving people that look like us, there seems to be an awful lot of underbelly in Britain that’s rising to the surface. Either that or the rest of us are sinking to the depths to join them. The BBC’s… Read more →
