Chaos theory states that a butterfly flapping its wings can influence hurricanes on the other side of the world. Or – in another example – a small shell being crushed underfoot causes waves and ructions in a three year old’s brain which… Read more →
For those that describe my column as the literary equivalent of watching paint dry, good news! Having started decluttering, we have now moved onto painting three rooms, and I’m going to use this column to tell all. My wife did the bathroom…. Read more →
A small sequel to last week’s column on clutter and home improvements. (Some sequels like The Godfather: Part II enhance the original; others such as Jaws 5 seem to be flogging a dead horse. What’s it going to be?!). As discussed, we… Read more →
We have been clearing stuff out. We’ve talked about it for ages, and been doing it on a small scale, but last weekend we actually started moving rooms around. I mean, of course, the contents of rooms, but enough to start calling… Read more →
Imagine if there was a global lost property, where all the lost hats, gloves and scarves of children went. It would be a mountain, a very soft mountain and remarkably colourful, much photographed, I guess, and the sort of thing that would… Read more →
We went to the Jurassic coast, but no, we didn’t find any fossils. (Let’s dissipate any narrative tension straightaway.) Still, there was much to enjoy on our recent holiday, including a guest celebrity. I last went there to Lyme Regis 23 years… Read more →
How much is an empty box? I’ll tell you. £60. OK, not really. But today I did buy an empty box for £60. I realised just in time and got my money back (who wouldn’t?) but it was a close run thing…. Read more →
Youngest™ loves to help. Let’s say that again. Youngest™ likes to ‘help’. Those inverted commas are deliberate, understood by parents. They are the question mark and the answer all in one. Is it really helping? No. Two things he likes to help… Read more →
It is now four years since I started writing this weekly column. The then editor of Latest Homes contacted me after I’d sent her a speculative article involving trying to explain to our (then only) son which Star Wars was the ‘first’…. Read more →
Two quite different trips this week. One to the Natural History Museum, and one to Milton Keynes. One with kids and one without. So it’s the ideal time for compare and contrast, more about the journeys than the destinations. Let’s start with… Read more →
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