Have you seen the ‘I met my younger self for coffee’ trend that’s been doing the rounds on social media lately? It’s a heartwarming trend, in which the person imagines sitting ...
My real-life scary house story... A few years ago, I was staying in a rental house in Miami (henceforth known as 'the scary house'...) with my husband and parents. Now, it's ...
Last week we decided to go to the farm. It took us approximately forever. We're still trying to leave now, actually: I'm writing this post somewhere in the indeterminate expanse of time ...
The diaries of a teenage girl are so terrible and embarrassing that the teenage girl in question would never, ever want them to appear on the internet, right? Well, maybe ...
So, the big news from the village this week is that the Post Office is now Not the Post Office: the General Store is now the Post Office. This is ...
When I was a little girl, my class was one day ushered into our school's TV Room, and invited to sit down and watch the movie The NeverEnding Story. (I'm assuming ...
When I was a child, I was obsessed with The Famous Five books, by Enid Blyton. To this day, I cannot drink ginger beer or explore a network of secret…
Ever wondered what happens if you touch an electric fence, folks? No, me neither, as it happens. To be totally honest, the thought of touching an electric fence was the very ...
Readers, a question has flooded in! Here it is: When you were 17, how did you spend most of your Saturdays? Ooh, let me think... when I was 17 I'd be ...
When I was a little girl, we had a Goodie Bowl. It... wasn't actually a bowl. No, it was a brown jar, with a screw-top lid: apparently its predecessor in the ...
Warning: this is YET ANOTHER BLOG POST about the extreme levels of mess in my house. Because, yes, I AM still talking about that. To make up for it, and ...
Remember my trip to London/Kent last month? The one that lasted just four days in real time, but which seems to have dragged on for at least four years in ...
This post was supposed to be the happy tale of a sunny day at the beach: a day on which no-one almost stood on a crab, no -one got locked ...
Everyone else is writing about the Olympics opening ceremony this morning. Instead of doing that, though, I'm going to write about that time I locked myself in the bathroom. That ...
When I was a kid, all of my friends wanted to be things like dentists and train drivers and stuff. (Note: none of my friends wanted to be dentists or ...
