Around My Kitchen Table

Oh dear, the weather is getting better here in the UK. You might think this is a cause for celebration, which it is to a certain ext...

If you spend very long on social media people will soon start sending you motivational quotes. I don't mind most of them - a metaph...

Left to my own devices without the steadying hand of my better half I would rapidly turn into one of those mad women who live on their own i...

My friends who are not from the UK may never heard of our supermarket   Waitrose . It’s a great store with high quality goods but it does ha...

I shared this a couple of years ago and, guess what?, we've only gone and had a load more snow this week! We Brits just can't cope. ...

Well, it made ME laugh! Then again, I was once accused of having "a misplaced sense of humour"! It was written in one of my sch...

The only careers advice I received as a teenager was to be a teacher or a nurse. “But I can’t stand the sight of blood!”  I squeale...

It's not often official portraits cause controversy.  No, they can be quite boring but King Charles III's latest picture has made...

Wally the alligator who has gone missing. Why are telling me about Joie Henney's pet called Wally? Wally is an emotional support pet ...

Why is everyone talking about a lobster diver called Mike Packard? He was swallowed by a whale. Very Biblical. So what happened? Mike  was d...

Our Alan in those subversive jeans. Shock! Horror! Alan Titchmarsh has been banned by North Korean TV. Or, to be more precise, his JEANS hav...