Twenty years ago I was having my passport checked in some godforsaken Turkish airport, and feeling more than a little nervous. I had recently seen Midnight Express and although the strongest thing in my back pack was some spearmint … Continue reading
This week is – incredibly – half way through TicTacGirl’s degree course. (Though TicTacGirl is no longer really TicTacGirl; a year and a half of an Oxford education means that she is probably now most aptly known by the … Continue reading
It won’t have escaped your attention that it has been a bit rainy these last few weeks. Obviously, grim winter weather isn’t particularly newsworthy when it only affects the horny-handed toilers of the rural ‘idyll’; but this year even … Continue reading
Yesterday I had the rather sobering experience of chaffeuring GothicDaughter on her first Valentine’s date, complete with red-ribboned fluffy bear (named, I kid you not, ‘Fluffy’), an anxiety-inducing cinema trip and national-emergency levels of awkwardness. I am not sure … Continue reading