I started this blog because I didn’t know what to do. I had just left work, for the first time since my daughter was born, I was at home with her. I had never put pen to paper before in my life. I didn’t think anyone would read it. When I started keeping this blog, [...]
Guido Fawkes. Guido Fawkes does a certain type of blogging. It isn’t a site I enjoy. But he does what he does, and it is slightly weird that this is somehow worse than the rest of the vileness on there. It isn’t. Bloggers like Guido serve a purpose. Christopher Myers- why has he lost his [...]
It’s been a while. Last time I spoke to you, I don’t think I had anywhere to live yet. In fact, calling this year one of the most difficult I have had in a while, would be the understatement of the century. Anyway, while I was househunting, I did a lot of wandering about. I [...]
Flipper could have sorted the BP oil leak. He would have dragged a cap down, fitted it, cleaned up, saved a kid, and eaten a fish. He is probably busy coughing up tarballs though. Bugger.
For weeks I have been trying to write a post, expressing how I feel about this coalition, and the difficulties in opposing them. Anyhow- Jonathon Freedland does it way better.
I took Rachel to a theme park yesterday. I have to say, it was very British. Peeling (occasionally creepy) fibreglass animals, animatronic dancing snowmen, staff who could have been dinner ladies at my school, and a cafe selling cups of tea in polystyrene cups that reinforced the drizzle and chill of a British summer day. [...]