by Ellee Seymour | Oct 27, 2008 | updates
I thought the worst when the phone rang at 2am yesterday. I knew it wasn’t my mother as she was staying with me for the weekend. Could it be my elderly in-laws, I wondered? Or a friend in desperate need? No, it was none of those. It was my son David ringing from...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 24, 2008 | updates
Unbelievably, James has offered to do a sponsored silence at school today to boost funds for his school prom. Four of his teachers are coughing up cash if James can keep his lips zipped all day. This will indeed be a first, not that I believe “children should be...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 23, 2008 | updates
I bet Question Time is kicking itself for not taking up the offer of having Tony McNulty on its illustrious panel tonight. He was suggested as a last ditch replacement for the new immigration minister Phil Woolas, who was barred by Home Secretary Jacki Smith for...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 22, 2008 | updates
Fish and chip suppers have been given a boost following an announcement by the European Parliament to reform the failing 2004 cod recovery plan. The plan was intended to help boost depleted stocks of white fish, but has been ineffective and had a ruinous effect on the...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 21, 2008 | updates
Marrying young can work – my mother was only 16 and had known my father a short while before their wedding in war-torn Greece. What is tragic about Peaches Geldof is her bleak description of marriage today. The 19-year-old married three months ago in a Las...
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