So we’re sending a few bombers to join the other nations who are using their planes to do too little too late. David Cameron, the British Prime Minister may talk big about defeating the monstrous organisation known as ISIS but…
Charlotte Harwood and Christopher Harper in Slipping I was in Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this weekend to see Slipping, a new play by the young writer Claudine Toutoungi – directed by my son Henry Bell. Henry Bell in Scarborough…
I have always liked the idea of growing Bonsai and, for my birthday last week, I was set up for the challenge and given this beautiful little tree called Syzygium buxifolium or Chinese myrtle. As today is China’s national…
The people of Hong Kong are still out there on the streets demonstrating, illegally but charmingly, for full democracy for their state within a state. They want free elections and object to Beijing imposing a list of ‘suitable’ candidates on…
What is it about paisley pyjamas? If we are to believe what we read in the British press today, then they are irresistible if you are a Tory woman. Or so one of our tabloid newspapers found out when…
There’s a rather adventurous clothes company in San Francisco called Betabrand. I read something about them online last year and liked their idea. They put up a photo of a new design and ask potential buyers to vote for it.…
On the stroke of midnight last night, fans of the BBC radio’s great music station BBC6, will have heard the sig tune for their weekly show 6 Music Recommends presented by Tom Ravenscroft, son of the legendary rock music presenter…
I have always been short-sighted, myopic, well, ever since I was a kid. I was given contact lenses as a 21st birthday present and, since then, I’ve had both good times and bad with them. I won’t tell you about…
I am fortunate to have a mother who is good with her hands. Mine, Mrs Irene Baxter (formerly Irene Bell), on the verge of a very significant birthday, is still designing and making knitted and crocheted garments and other things…
I may be a bit tired after hanging around during the night wondering about the Scottish Independence Referendum results but I feel good today – all of me except the tired bits – all my Scottish, Northern Irish and…