A Disorderly Retirement
A few years ago I decided I needed a change. I am no great adventurer and wasn’t planning to tour the world on a motorbike, join an Indian ashram or go to live off-grid on a remote Scottish island. I just wanted to live in a different place and do different things. Sir Ranulph Fiennes…
Someone once said that Christmas is a joke played on middle-aged women. I should probably follow my mother’s lead and claim to be middle-aged right into my 70s, but, although somewhat deluded, I tend to think of myself more realistically as being in the foothills of old age. I’ll let you know when I get…
I have to come clean right from the start: I love a silly hat. In fact, I’m a big fan of dressing up in general. I know that many people who open an invitation to a costume party suddenly find that their diary is very full, but I’m not one of them. Some of my…
I do love a survey, even though I think most of them are highly suspect. I find myself reading the results of the latest survey with great interest only to realise that, rather than a scientific inquiry involving a large, varied sample of people, it was just a journalist canvassing a few of their friends…