So, I’ve decided that we need a new oven. Paul thinks that our old oven is fine, but as the major user of the oven, my opinion has more weight. It came to a head recently when I realised that the built in grill only has two working settings, off and blast everything to charcoal…

In the beginning, there was nothing, at least as far as my online presence was concerned. I had a personal Facebook account and that was pretty well it. A chat with my publishers, the excellent Burning Chair, convinced me to get a twitter account and an Instagram account. However, apart from the twitter account, I…

I don’t have an actual ritual for my coffee, unless you count staggering from my bedroom at six thirty a.m. to quickly make a cup of instant coffee before the grandkids arrive. I have six of them and, just as our parents helped us while we were both working, we help our kids with childcare.…