I am bracing myself for a couple of crazy months of travel and speaking, starting in just a few days from now. Blog posts may be fewer and further between while I am on the road, but I will do … Continued

Last weekend I was up at my mother’s house, retrieving the last of my possessions from her garage to move them down to a storage unit in London. For somebody who thought she didn’t have much stuff – and prided … Continued

I’m usually too busy trying to keep up with my own life to be very good at reading other people’s blogs. However, there are five blogs that I read regularly, and would like to recommend. I receive all of them … Continued

Last week I went to Number Ten, Downing Street, for the first time ever. It was rather exciting to find myself standing outside the famous front door. I was not there to berate the Prime Minister for not doing more … Continued

In the summer of 2004 I was in a very uncertain phase of my life. I was separated from my husband, had no job, and was living rent-free in a Dickensian (aka grungy) flat above an antiques shop in a … Continued