As I write I have a sixteen year old daughter downstairs, revising for her GCSEs. I say revising, but it looks more like 'creative procrastination' to me. I see no mind maps, no textbooks. Instead there seems to be an inordinate amount of time spent staring at one of kind...

I got a phone call from my doctor recently, telling me that a recent blood test showed that I was 'post-menopausal'. I didn't quite know how to respond to this news. I didn't feel post-menopausal. My body seemed to be still following somewhat familiar rhythms. When I said nothing, he...

Happy Flippin' Valentine's Day. I don't know what happened to me this winter, but I have been struggling to find that loving feeling. Maybe because it has been particularly grey and cold here in the UK. But probably not. I'm old enough to know that it is never REALLY about...

My friend Helen Taylor who works at Ecotricity just texted me that their electric sports car, a very sexy looking black batmobile type thing, called the Nemesis, has just broken the land speed record. That will be the UK electric car land speed record...

As my three year old nephew says, "I so confoosed". Recently, The Herald Tribune carried the headline, " A new generation of oil titans". The sub heading was "Western Hemisphere rivals OPEC as it moves toward self-sufficiency". I don't often buy The Herald Tribune, but I had to buy that...