Bully for me 11 Aug 2013 | 04:45 am

Some things I never did as a child: I never took the school hamster home for the holidays. I never had a limb in plaster. I never played Mary in the school nativity. I was never in a nativity. We n...

Miss Jones Is... Writing Without Authority About David Bowie 15 Jul 2013 | 02:33 am

A quiz: Consider the quotation 'Ultraviolence in Liberty fabrics.' Does it describe: a) A costume designed for the musician David Bowie during the Starman era? b) My disposition, 45 minutes into t...

Commuter dominoes 28 Jun 2013 | 02:20 am

Art is hard 26 Jun 2013 | 03:45 am

I believe that creativity demands total emotional truth. That's why I feel compelled to tell you that my latest found-art project, exploring the ways in which extraordinary musical talent is predesti...

Blogging again! Strictly half-term report! Trumpets! 12 Nov 2012 | 04:46 am

No explanation, no excuses, I am easing myself back into blogging with a half-term report on this series of Strictly Come Dancing. I'm not sure how it can be half-term when there are still 10 – 10! – ...

12 Things I Learnt From The Olympic And Paralympic Games 20 Sep 2012 | 04:24 am

or 'Yes, I am still going on about this, but so are the weekend supplements, so I think it's kind of OK, especially considering this is not even my actual job.' WARNING: Long! Really, really long. M...

A Late And Over-Emotional Response To The Recent Olympic Games, Containing Poor Reasoning And Little Fresh Insight 18 Aug 2012 | 08:01 am

For well over two weeks now, I've had a heavy stone sitting in my stomach. And it is not just the late-night BK Whopper meal I ate on the way home from the Greco-Roman wrestling. BA-DUM! It is becaus...

Vacation 17 Feb 2012 | 11:51 am

I'm going to be taking a little holiday from blogging – not the now-habitual week or two between posts, I mean a proper holiday for a few months. Look on it as the blogging equivalent of going travell...

On Marks & Spencer and their self-respect (slight return) 13 Feb 2012 | 01:30 pm

Oh Marks & Spencer. Have you not read my laments for your lost dignity? For your slightly self-conscious slide into twee packaging, alien brands and freshly flipped burgers? No one even calls you St ...

The Little Crisp That Could… And Then Actually Couldn't 1 Feb 2012 | 01:41 pm

This is the view from my bedroom window. The first thing you might think on seeing this picture is that our neighbours must produce a LOT of rubbish. They do. But another group of you will only hav...