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We writers, when we are planning to write a book, keep an ear to the ground. A few years ago, the pundits told us to avoid misery memoirs like the plague, no publisher wants or is interested in [...]

“As a kid I never lacked for anything. No one felt poor because everyone was the same. We lived off broken biscuits. It was great.” That’s not me speaking but John McDonnell, [...]

You know that feeling when you want to visit but you never do. It’s ages since we went to the Isle of Wight so when friends on holiday there invited us over, it was an easy decision. The [...]

I live in Friars Cliff, Christchurch – the perfect seaside location. It’s a cosy place, full of pensioners and dog walkers. Okay, it turns a little manic at Bank Holidays and hot [...]

Ken Wilber, in a YouTube video, discussed the comments and writings of Jordan Peterson. He is the controversial Canadian Professor of Psychology who wrote ’12 rules for Life’. It [...]

I always find it interesting when the suited and formal Christians knock on my door with a desire to promote Christianity. Perhaps I should ask them why they appear to focus on Friars Cliff? Do [...]

It was the East End gym owner who fostered this post. He was asked by a television interviewer why so many kids were carrying knives. It’s father poverty, he said. As a person who [...]

It was a shock, I have to concede. The Duchess of Cornwall, Gyles Brandreth and I have something in common. It’s what we all do in bed, in the dark of night. No, not that. We quietly recite [...]

I mentioned in a recent post my desire to be an influencer. Now, it appears that M & S, Boden and Very have marketing teams seeking out the nano-influencer, bloggers with a small following. [...]

The sexual needs of pensioners in care homes has become a priority of the Care Quality Commission. They have instructed staff to encourage intimacy. That really upset me as a care home might well [...]