It's been a long, long time since I last wrote about Nigel, the International Man of Mystery Next Door, so for the benefit of any new readers, a little bit ...
I'm just going to keep this short, but slightly hysterical: WE LOST OUR PASSPORTS. We turned the house upside down looking for them. We searched for an hour. I even called my ...
After the "catastrophic failure" that mysteriously led Heart Internet to lose all of my websites on Friday afternoon, I had thought all of our bad luck for the year had ...
If you’re a regular reader of any of my websites, you’ve probably already noticed that all of the sites have been down for most of today. You’ve probably also noticed…
Riddle me this, readers: You're at the gym. It's empty, but for one solitary person - a clumsy redhead, say - who is wheezing away on the treadmill right next to ...
Today I did my first ever 10km run. 10km! And OK, I did it on the treadmill rather than outside, and I didn't exactly break the land speed record in the ...
Yesterday I was working away at my desk when I happened to look round to find that OMG, there had been a MURDUR! </ Taggart> This photo doesn't really do ...
Last week Amber’s Magic iPhone predicted that yesterday (Sunday) would be the only dry day we’d be getting for a long, long time: possibly the last one ever, for all…
Because I am lazy: 1. I still haven't found The Dress. This is much to the distress of Terry, because it seems that I just can't stop talking about it. I ...
I lost my favourite dress. I know: how do you lose a DRESS, I hear you ask? That's what my parents asked, anyway, and I tell you what I told them: ...
So, my dad goes into the Apple store. I've no idea why, because my parents now have a total of four computers and, well, there's only two of them. But ...
I read Carol Sarler’s piece on Why bosses are right to distrust women who don’t have children this morning (I know, I should know better to read anything in the…
Sometimes I look at Rubin and I think, "GOD, what is that on his face? Has he been eating cat droppings again?" "You know, I really wish I was him." ...
So, when I wrote about my little misadventure in the countryside this weekend, I thought all the fun was over. But I was wrong. Not long after I published that post, I ...
On Sunday, we decided to take the dog for a walk around Linlithgow Loch. Terry has done this walk before: it's short, and there's a proper footpath, so I figured ...
I don’t watch much TV. Well, other than Neighbours, obviously. So when I started reading a lot of hype about a singer called Susan Boyle, who’d appeared on Britain’s Got…
People, I am in a book. An actual book, that you can buy: Yes, I know, I can't quite believe it either. It's a comedy book, and I'm still half expecting ...
The latest installment of The Cold That Won't Die has left me feeling run-down and miserable, so instead of getting out and about, and clocking up new Random Acts of ...