March 29, 2009
I’ve been feeling very uneasy about my bald comment (on the About Melanie page) that I hated boarding school. Not because it’s untrue, but because it’s heavy-handed and unsubtle. Yes, I did hate it. Being there – at any of the schools - and dreading being back there dominated and oppressed my childhood. Why?
I wasn’t bullied, I wasn’t any more [...]
Last night, driving home from a jolly 60th birthday bash, with my partner, Chris in the front, daughter Martha and son-in-law Ben (in wigs) in the back, I was stopped and breathalysed for the first time in my life.
Martha and Ben had been to see West Side Story (not in wigs) before coming on to [...]
March 10, 2009
A purse-lipped and parsimonious cliche because of the way it’s often used.
Is anyone interested? Does it matter? Who cares? Unanswerable.