Something for the Weekend?

As any regular reader will know I’m always mentioning the products of AGA Rangemaster, possibly because I’m a Brand Ambassador, but mainly as they are British and all designed and manufactured in the UK.

Did you know? Rangemaster cookers are made in Leamington Spa on the site where the worlds first Rangecooker, The Kitchener, was developed by Sydney Flavel with a history of over 800 years. There’s one to wow your friends with over dinner!

Time And Travel (Again)

Where does the time go? My life seems to be speeding up at an alarming rate, as if I am sitting in a car with no brakes hurtling down the side of Mount Everest. It seems that I sat down to have a cup of tea since a biscuit and it’s a month since Christmas. I blinked and we’re already more than halfway through January. I coughed and it was a new decade. By this rate, I’ll go to the shops for some groceries, return home and it’ll be time to pick up my pension.

I predict a maggot, I predict a maggot….

The idea of being filmed sounds fine until you’re actually being filmed. You can fool yourself into thinking that you have perfect poise and clipped, clear diction, but that’s before you’re standing in front of a team of people brandishing cameras, lights and booms. You’re expected to act naturally, yet at the same time you’re receiving directions to do and say things you might not otherwise do and say. All of a sudden your legs become filled with jellied eels, your tongue swells to three times its regular size, and your arms become strangers, flailing and flapping about like those tall balloons you see outside car showrooms.

It’s Been An Odd Few Days…

I didn’t want to start this latest dispatch on a melodramatic note, but please indulge me: if you never see or hear from me again, thank you for your patience, your hospitality and, above all, for buying the books. In case you didn’t already know, at the end of this week I am jetting off [...]

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

One of the perks of my job, and there are many, is how well travelled I have become in the past couple of years. I know I complain about being in a perpetual state of motion, as most days it seems as if I am seat-belted and twitchy in one form of transport or another. [...]