Archive for July 2018

I’m back home and into the routines of day-to-day life after a hectic but fun-filled week of volunteering at Keswick Convention. It’s always great to be there – like coming home to a big family who don’t see each other for 51 weeks of the year but gel like we’ve never been apart on the…

The past few weeks have been odd. I’m used to being in the media but I’m usually the one asking the questions. I’m not used to being on the other side. I’m not used to being asked the questions, to not being in control of how the story reads, of being on the receiving end…

I hear a lot of talk about wealth vs poverty, of abundance vs want, of haves vs have nots. I hear a lot about the apparent inequality of such extremes. And, on the one hand, it is an inequality because, put simply, some people have more money and material possessions at their direct disposal than…

Apparently the nation’s going a little bit crazy about football. I suppose it’s understandable. After all, England are through to the World Cup semi-finals for the first time in 28 years. For a bit of perspective, the last time England were in a World Cup semi-final, I’d only just started school. So it’s perhaps no…

Today I celebrated the dispatch of the first set of book orders by going clothes shopping. Okay, that’s not entirely accurate. I actually went clothes shopping because the heatwave is showing no signs of subsiding and approximately 0.02% of the contents of my wardrobe were suitable for wearing in this heat without the risk of…