Love, Life & A Lot of Animals

So when does a grown up, finally feel grown up? I’m 39 and a half, and I can tell you, I do not feel grown up. I still don’t know things that my child-self w...

After literally decades of monumentally taking the piss, eating and drinking whatever I have wanted, my metabolism has finally caught up with me. Now I have...

Do your birthdays ever find you feeling philosophical? Why are we here? What's it all about? Where's the wine? Now that Bailey has owned me for a year, and I...

How the M27 is responsible for a few more grey hairs, and how I have been almost glad to smell fox poo. It’s that feeling as if you’ve missed the last step, ...

Mondays. I'm amazed that Susannah Hoffs even had any ruddy energy left to sing about them! By the time my Mondays are done, I'm as limp as a wrung out flann...

Welcome to the Winter of My (Dis)content.... We all used to love a snow day, right? Even the anticipation of a snow day! Sitting up late listening to the rad...

Introducing my family: - 3 cats, 1 dog, 1 threenager & a World Class Grump. Now please, don't get me wrong. I don't want us to get off on the wrong foot. But...

How the arrival of one little fluff monkey changed our lives forever.... An ill wind whistled through the air. Charcoal grey clouds scudded across a bruised ...