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 ...
When I was a little girl, my parents took me to see E.T. at the cinema. It was a rather traumatic experience for my young self. Oh, don't get me ...
I'll be spending a chunk of this afternoon at the dentist's, so today seemed as good a time as any to show you this letter, which my mum came across ...
If you’re a longtime reader, or are one of my parents, you will already know much, much more than you ever wanted to about my main phobias: crustaceans, people rubbing…
Well, folks, I got nothin' here. Seriously, I'm having to rack up so many blog posts in advance, so that I can go on holiday and still get paid, that ...
When I was a child, my parents would occasionally find themselves looking after two dogs. The dogs in question were brothers: Snoopy belonged to my mum's parents and Rusty belonged ...
I'd imagine most of the people reading this probably think I've only been using the written word as a means of embarrassing myself in public for as long as I've ...
For this week’s Friday Photo, I present the evidence of the one and only time in my life when I was persuaded that dungarees were an acceptable item of clothing….
For today's Friday Photo, I proudly present yet another in my continuing series of Embarrassing Photos of Me as a Child. I'm the little boy on the left. Yes, that ...
You can probably tell from the hair (and the butchness) that this photo is another in my occasional series of embarrassing photos of me as a child. This particular photo ...
I have absolutely nothing to say for myself at the moment, so, instead of a proper entry, here's the next installment of my occasional series of "Embarrassing Photos of Me ...
Well, folks, it’s Father’s Day in this here neck of the woods (and possibly in other necks of the woods, too, only I wouldn’t know about that), and as I…
Remember that novel I was writing? Yeah, it would be good if I'd actually done that, wouldn't it? Why, I could be sitting here with a book deal and an ...
I got paid today. Spent it. Yes, all of it. Oops. See, I needed new glasses. Actually, I've needed new glasses for about three years now, ever since Rubin ate the ...