It's nothing at all

The simplest way to avoid looking or feeling old is to spend time only with people older than yourself. It's easy. My parents are kick...

I've been arguing with a friend a bit about being a vegan. Yes, really, hard it may be to comprehend me being argumentative, but yes. An...

Hello dear imaginary reader. It's been almost a year again. I expect Blogger probably has no actual readers now. It's just imagina...

Generally members of the public are fairly polite. They don't pass comment on personal things and tend to err on the side of pleasant wh...

Woo. Autumn has officially started, yesterday in fact. This makes me happy. It makes me happy every year as we rid ourselves of  the insec...

So, I've watched the first 51 minutes of Superman vs Batman and given up due to the super slow internet and its inability to keep strea...

I've been a mother for nearly 11 years. I still have this worry at the back of my mind that somebody sometime will show up and say that ...

So you found me. Say hello please, I've been waiting for you.

So it seems that September is the month for two mighty endeavours to be undertaken by us ordinary people. Should we manage to achieve these ...

For most of my adult (and latter teen) life, I was a smoker. In times of duress, whether sad or stressed, or even just bored, I would smoke ...

Competitive parenting combined with competitive sob stories is something else. There's a thing doing the rounds, and it may not be new...

Humph. So Jeremy Corbyn sat on a train floor and the world has gone mad about it. Does it matter? Oh, probably it does. Apparently having ...

No, this isn't a nihilistic depressive piece. Every year at this time I am perplexed as to why daddy long legs exist. They are probably...

Crikey, I was still on the young side of very old last time I wrote this. Still, it's easier than starting over. Does anyone still use/r...

On September the 18th 2014, I shall be marching to the polling station and proudly marking my X next to Yes. I do think Scotland should be ...

I'm starting afresh. Come find me at   http://ostensiblyowl.blogspot.co.uk/

Tragically this morning, a helicopter in London crashed into a crane and subsequently burst into flames, killing the pilot of the helicopter...

Yeah, I'm late. Checking into Twitter, I find some amount of venom aimed at Ms Julie Burchill. So I Google her name. So, we don't ...

Ok, it's not a new day, dawn or life, and it's not quite new year any more either. But I haven't blogged in a while, no, really,...

Ooh. Today is the day the world ends, except it doesn't. According to Mayan calendars, December 21 2012 marks the end of the 13th baktu...