Fifty Shades of “HEY!…..Shut up”

I like to think I’m pretty OK at my job.  Once I’m able to stop crying I think I do an alright job at looking stuff up on the computeoid and then going to the place where it is.  In the last week my skills have taken on an almost God-like power.  I just need […]

How to cancel your Times subscription

It was with horror today that I realised I still had an active Times Online subscription. It was like finding out I’d been unwittingly funding criminals for months…oh hang on… No-one wants to knowingly give money to Rupert Murdoch; the fact we almost certainly and without our knowledge, line his silken pockets on a daily […]

Heard the one about the wannabe writer who walked into a bookshop…

I am slightly obsessed with clichés.  In my most lacklustre of writing moods my blog posts, love letters and shopping lists are spattered with them.   For a writer, indulging in clichés is like eating a McDonald’s drive thru on the same day you have just printed out your new “2000 calorie a day” diet plan from […]