An Author's Notebook

Hermaphrodite Mum   Three kids and a single mum It's a sight to make every mother's heart sink: your child, curled up with her he...

I blame Facebook. For all those wasted hours. Every morning, I settle down in front of my computer, flex my fingers above the keyboard and m...

Hermaphrodite Mum   Three kids and a single mum I read in The Times newspaper that a quarter of 14-year old girls are depressed . Good g...

A few people I know are still a bit snotty about social media and just occasionally I can understand why. You run the risk of saying somethi...

What kind of idiot drops their mobile phone down the loo? That's what I thought to myself a few months ago when my brother lost his iPho...

In the beginning there was a UKIP town councillor and he had dominion over the good people of Henley-on-Thames. The name of this councillor ...

I took to my bed this week. After 10 days of frenetic activity, my body went on strike. Exhaustion had set in, along with a temperature. The...

Last night I walked into a room of about 400 women in full-flow, not knowing a soul. It was a daunting prospect, to say the least. I had fou...