Shoo fly

Sweetpea turned 10 today. I know! What business does she have turning double digits when I myself don’t look a day over 25? (Without glasses, in a foggy mirror and with a few drinks down me). More sobering, though, than my daughter turning ten was hearing that Thelma and Louise turned 20. Seeing as that [...]

Get me to the Geeks

Oh technological woes. It doesn’t rain but it pours, as they say, and it p***ed down on me this week as far as gadgetry is concerned. First off was my laptop, which has been trying to warn me of its demise for sometime: freezing up mid-sentence or email, blue screen of death, very hot on [...]

Here’s to you, Mutt

“My wife and I have a saying about dogs,” somebody told me recently. “Dogs happen to you.” How very true. I wasn’t looking, honest. I wasn’t in search of a Mutt, or any addition to the family. Getting a dog was far from my mind when I turned into our street and saw him, shivering [...]

Filmed in technicolor

Hubby and I had an urge last night to revisit Shallow Grave, the dark comedy that launched the careers of director Danny Boyle and actor Ewan McGregor, about three Edinburgh flatmates and a suitcase full of money. I have to say I wasn’t as blown away as the first time around, but then that’s maybe because [...]

Next up: HGTV the magazine

  Who launches a magazine in this climate of tired-out, washed-up, tottering-and-about-to-fall print media? Why HGTV, of course.   Last week came news that America’s beloved home and lifestyle network is teaming up with Hearst Magazines to test-market HGTV Magazine this Autumn. And while I want to shout out, “Nooooo!”, I wouldn’t be surprised if [...]