I make no bones about it - I'm a committed smoker, and have been for years. Yes, yes, I know it's a 'filthy habit', and that I shouldn't...

Don't you just hate all these changes to the way English should be spoken? First we have KIDS TALK - that awful 'Innit', 'Yeah so?',...

Before I start, let me make it quite clear that I have no time for Ken Livingstone - not for his political views or his public persona. ...

Just 241 years ago we were one nation, and the USA was called 'British America'. (Just to put it into perspective, today, St. George's...

Just seen on the internet that Doris Day was 92 this week! I was a great fan of hers when I was about ten, or so, and went to see all of...

Driving today, and stopped at a Zebra Crossing. A young black guy stepped out, and leaning down, and looking directly into my car gave...

News broke today that there has been a massive leak of information from a Panamanian law company, Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in...

THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT MYSTERY TO ME FOR MANY YEARS! (And I challenge anyone to give me an answer!) Where do birds go to die? There must...

Nicola Sturgeon seeks support for her "Beautiful Dream" of indepence for Scotland, and has announced at the Spring Conference, that she...

Had to babysit today. Our two-year-old granddaughter had been unwell last night - throwing up, and keeping her parents up all night! ...