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The pain has returned
I spent a sleepless night last night tossing and turning. But who was I to complain when it was David who was quietly suffering in pain. At 1am and 2am. Suffering considerable pain long into the night. So I dosed him up with painkillers and hoped that would help. He...
Will you get fooled today?
Heather Yaxley has beaten me to it and published some of today's April Fool's Day stunts which have hit the headlines. The Daily Mirror claims that ITV has come up with Dancing On Ice using greyhounds to try and top the Strictly Come Dancing ratings. A Greyhound...
The new media and politics
I was sorry last night to have missed the Reform/Bloomberg party to celebrate the new media politics revolution. I missed Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, speak on how new media should transform politics and government. Bloggers and...
Why do women stay with brutes?
I was astonished to read about the cruelty levelled by Sir Vidia Naipaul against the women who loved him - his Oxford educated wife Pat and mistress of 20 years Margaret Murray, for whom the attraction was merely sexual. I found John Carey's review in yesterday's...
French chic, where are the heels?
The outfits were elegant and demure and deliberately understated to accommodate the renowned British reserve. But one thing stood out and disappointed me about Carla Sarkozy's carefully planned wardrobe during her visit to the UK last week -where were the heels? I...
What a difference a week makes
Just before Easter I was ranked at just over 19,000 by Technorati, the internet search engine which tracks every blog in the world. In the last week, thanks to my hectic home and work schedule which resulted in light blogging, I dropped 10,000 places, but am still...
A literary weekend in Cambridge
I'm attending a couple of meetings this morning, then heading off to Cambridge Wordfest for the rest of the day for some stimulation at this always exciting literary festival being held this weekend. It may not surprise you to learn that with my passion for...
Phoning home from the sky
There was a time you could go to the cinema and enjoy a film knowing everyone's mobile phone was switched off. That is not the case any more. When my family and I this week went to see my husband's starring role in The Other Boleyn Girl, somebody's phone rang and the...
Supporting brain injury survivors
I'm wearing my trustees hat today and will be spending some time at Headway Cambridgeshire with its excellent CEO Andrew Gardner. Next week is Action for Brain Injury Week and it will focus on highlighting research which describes the discrimination and prejudice...