THE main reason I have remained child-free – rather than childless – is that I didn’t think I could handle the stress or expense of being a dad.
I’M just old enough to remember Fawlty Towers when it first appeared on TV, in 1975 and 1979.
YEARS ago, at another newspaper, my colleagues and I were discussing our families.
YEARS ago my mother badly sprained her arm and, for the first and last time my father tried to do some ironing.
IF January is the month for making and breaking new year’s resolutions, then many of us will have vowed to lose weight and yielded to a takeaway by now.
SOME people are optimists by nature, and others are pessimists, but I’m not sure which I am.
ON Monday it will be exactly three years since the last general election.
IN just over three weeks’ time Christmas will be over for another year.
IN some ways, climate change isn’t really that difficult to get our heads around. It’s fairly straightforward.
EARLIER this week, while joyriding on the internet and looking for trivia on my favourite TV programmes, I came across something that bewildered me.
