The enormous cost of teenage car insurance

How can you not feel sorry for teenage drivers? As a mum of two teen drivers – the youngest who passed his test only a couple of weeks ago – I can understand why they want to take to the road and enjoy an independent life, especially living in a village...
Heading for Wales

Heading for Wales

This year is the first time that my husband and I will not be joined by our two teenage sons on holiday – our eldest will be with his girlfriend’s family in Majorca and our youngest prefers to work hard at his summer job to save for a car having just...

Allan Brigham’s tour of Chesterton

Last night I joined Cambridge’s popular historian and the city’s best known road sweeper, Allan Brigham,  for a guided tour of Chesterton – old and new. He’s a bit like the Pied Piper and attracts hordes of enthusiastic followers who lap up...