It’s official – I’m a NIMBY
I am now a card-carrying, fully paid up member of the NIMBY brigade (not in my back yard) because the new housing developments around my...
New Year, New Opportunities
It’s New Year’s Eve 2014 and all I can think about is the diet I need to start and how I need to be brave and start submitting my new...
Is shopping now the true meaning of Christmas?
The Christmas decorations have gone up in Birmingham city centre (in October) and one of them simply reads ‘Birmingham Shopping’. So not...
NaNoWriMo – quantity over quality perhaps?
November is NaNoWriMo month when various organisations from bookshops to libraries come together to encourage us to write that novel...
Halloween – who needs children?
It’s that time of year again when perfectly sensible people dress up in silly costumes, scrape the middles out of large vegetables and...
What about a Fair Trade deal for our dairy farmers?
I came across a really sad news story about a local dairy farmer who had been forced to sell his 85 short horn dairy cows after more than...
Autumn – the season of gorgeous trees and Hunter wellies
Nothing says autumn quite like a tree proudly displaying its russet and golden leaves. And as this is early autumn, the leaves have yet...
