Why is it so easy to throw us under a bus?
I emailed my (now Labour) MP this morning. Here is the body of my message:
Dear Liam,
I hope you’re well.
I was on our LibDem stand in Beckenham yesterday and at one point found myself standing up for you as our MP when a visitor to our stall
Brancaster beach
What a superb walk we had today at Brancaster beach. Over a mile of sandy beach expanse, the sea gently rolling in.
There were a few people there, including a man walking his 14 week-old labrador puppy, Django, his Bearded Dragon on his shoulder. That's Norfolk!
The grassy
Life in the old(er) dogs yet
This is Thomas (on the right I think) and Bessie.
Both ex-show and ex-breeding dogs, they'd come to the end of their working life and were adopted by B, who has rehomed lots of show-line labradors. Tom is now 9.5 years old and Bess is a couple
Remembering my mum today
It's the 6th anniversary of her death today, and I'm remembering how I was sitting on my Discovery Bay sofa working my way through the whole series of Friends on my laptop when the email came in from the Doctor at the Dignity Lifestyle Resort to
Braised beef cheeks
On evenings like this week's, when I've come in from the cold and wet, I long to put my bum up against the AGA to warm up. My modern Beckenham kitchen isn't quite as comforting as the cosy Norfolk one, however.
I have wanted
Sarah Leonard
I knew she'd been ill and whenever I walked Fergus past her house, a couple of evenings a week, and saw the front bedroom light always on, I wondered how she was doing. Yesterday I actually bothered to do a search and found her obituary.
Thank you for
You have to develop resilience when you're canvassing
I've just come in from a quick canvassing session, where we attempted to survey local residents on their priorities and worries for the local area. If you don't know about people's concerns, you can't address them, right?
One door was opened by
Good for my health
Well, will you look at that?! Is it a coincidence that this notification from my phone Health app came exactly 9 days after I left Facebook and Instagram?
Scientifically speaking, there will be unisolated variables, but what a strong indication that being part of Meta was not doing me any
This week's earworms
I can't be the only one who finds myself with music going round in my head to reflect my mood, my subconscious concerns? Sometimes my head music takes me by surprise by how it knows what I'm thinking before I realise it. This week I have
It's brown
...which is just a darker shade of beige.
This year's It Colour is "Mocha Mousse." Already we see it appearing everywhere.
A few years ago white was de rigeur in all modern interiors. Which looked beautiful (if, in my view, dull) until it was covered with