Not really. I’d be very surprised, not to mention impressed, if anyone wants to read my texts at all, even the people to whom they are addressed. Yet the lead item on the BBC News today has been this: that the government, with the full collaboration of the Opposition, are planning to rush through legislation …
Patisserie Valerie has now opened in Maidstone. Not wishing to show any disrespect to my nearest town, but I have to make the point that this is quite a development. First it was Fremlin Walk (posh shops) then it was Wagamama, and now Pat Val! Whatever next?? You may already know that I have an …
Today’s entry has been prompted by this: Those are my diaries, folks, covering every year from 1985 (the year I turned 14) to the end of 2000 (when I was 29). 1992 and 1994 seem to be missing. There were quite long periods when I didn’t write, but I don’t remember ever not having a …