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My Nuisance Neighbour – Sigmund.

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I’ve known for many years now that dyslexics (or those with ‘reading/spelling de-coding impairment’ – or whatever you want to call it) don’t get on too well with sarcasm. They tend to hear and perceive everything literally; especially when they’re kids.  As the child gets older, the ability to pick-up faster on sarcasm increases, but […]

Adopting an Attitude

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The other day, I was waxing lyrical about how wonderful it is to have found a couple of people mad enough (cough, alright .. warm-hearted enough) to become adopted grandparents to my children. I was even thinking of writing a blog about this rare twosome, until it suddenly occurred to me that it probably isn’t […]

Jerry Had Left The Building

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As a family, we had probably become a bit complacent with regards to letting our feathered friends roam a bit too free inside of the home. After all, our previous budgie’s name was ‘Elvis’ and whilst we realised that the ‘left the building’ suffix for that name had somewhat been tempting fate…. well. It never […]

Lycra, Leather and the Locals

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A mother and her 13 yr old daughter, Holmfirth Cafe on a Sunny Sunday HER: “Mum, why is Holmfirth always chocca-ful of middle-aged blokes on bikes in leather ..?  Or blokes on bikes in lycra?  It’s so embarrassing.” ME: “You know why. Good biking routes – whether you’ve got a big engine or … or […]

Video (didn’t kill) the Radio Star

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A few years ago, I came off the phone and was met with the comment of, “Good Grief, you and your mum can talk when you get going – what was that? Two hours?” “Actually, it wasn’t my mum,” I replied. “It was Trevor Baylis.” A short pause in the conversation. And then; “What? Trevor […]

Ministering to Mind Games

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My first novel, ‘Mind Games and Ministers’  kind of erm … sold out. Which was nice. So, having recently published my second one (a sequel, if you like – ‘Cuckoo in the Chocolate’) I took the opportunity to ask the artist who designed ‘Cuckoo’, to have a bash at a new cover for a second […]