Books

While we all like to think that life is endlessly possible and lustrously malleable, the truth is, often to quite accidentally, that we end up in craterous ruts of our own making. We don’t mean to send our life down some dead-end road to nowhere but one badly handled sliding Continue Reading

One of the things that makes Christmas such an attractive time of the year is the compelling idea that it might be when someone finds their forever home. Maybe it’s because many people seem happier at this time of year, or the world simply looks more attractive garlanded in lights Continue Reading

Mary Berry is one of the undisputed doyennes of British food cooking, writing and presenting, an amazingly talented person who has achieved a considerable amount in her 87 years on earth. But is she role model material? You get the feeling that Mary herself would demur any suggestion that you Continue Reading

It’s a rare thing these days to have anything become a water cooler hit. For one thing, we are far less likely, in the wake of the pandemic, to be in an office these days, much less one with a water cooler, but for quite another, we are living digitally Continue Reading

Is there anything more wonderful than falling in love at Christmas? The twinkling of festive lights on the streets, trees decked in all manner of baubles and tinsely garb and the general sense of being in a luminously light place once-or-twice removed from the manic hubbub of everyday life – Continue Reading

Christmas is supposed to be rose, cosy and oh-so-festively nice. Well, that’s the luminously lovely PR anyway; the truth is, it doesn’t always live to the pitch, no matter how hard we try and we arrive at the festive season feeling ill-prepared, all-at-sea and unsure if we have what it Continue Reading