I sit on the committee of the Wylye Women WI Lite (like the traditional Women's Institute but aimed at younger women - think Mojitos and Mamma Mia rather than Jam and Jerusalem) and, more recently, on the committee of our local Rugby Club. The two couldn't be more different. Our...

And so it was, a few months ago, that the girl uttered those words that every mother fears, well, every mother as disorganised as me at least. "Mum, I'm becoming a vegetarian."

My first thought wasn't "well I'm proud to have a daughter who knows her own mind and isn't...

Google 'when is the world going to end' and you will find many suggestions for the day that will we meet our maker. The most popular is 21st December 2012 which is a bit of a bummer because I won't make my birthday on 29th. Better not ask for any...

No, not those three little words, I mean the rather too oft quoted 'A survey found.....'. These days it seems almost impossible to go a whole day without reading these three little words. Surveys regularly seem to find that I feed my children convenience food (wrong, I cook from scratch...

Well, the big fat family holiday is over and we are all back in our respective homes in Kent, Sussex and Wiltshire. This is the first time I've ever holidayed in the UK, not entirely surprising for someone who had visited Australia before she ever went to Scotland. It's the...

Thursday was GCSE results day. By 9am various parts of the media had whipped themselves up into a collective frenzy over the news that grades were higher than ever. They exams were 'worthless', there was 'no point' to them and of course the old favourite 'they were so much harder...

I'm somewhere in Devon, I couldn't tell you where. I'm in a barn (a converted one thank goodness) with 6 adults, 5 teenagers, 3 dogs and lots of laminate flooring. Dogs and laminate flooring do not go together. The constant tapping of claws on floors is driving me slowly mad....