Ahem Summer has arrived and so have all those things related to summer that we tend to forget on an annual basis. Queues at airports […]

Ahem It has been another rainy month all told and we have all struggled to differentiate the weather from that of the country that we […]

Ahem April has been described as the cruellest month and it is true that April is often the month when cutting the grass, for example, […]

Ahem March is an expensive month in the Stanbrook household, as I find myself presented with, well, presents on the 6th to celebrate my increasingly […]

Ahem The beginning of the month found us all in very bad shape, and even yours truly rather unusually succumbed and had to take time […]

Ahem We’ve been ice-skating quite a lot, and mostly since just before Christmas. The whole family has got into it and every now and again […]

Ahem. I bring news of my latest bicycle accident. It was about three weeks ago. It was dark, stormy and raining again but I was […]

Ahem I had another crash on the bike, well, a minor but abrupt fall as I cycled onto the pavement, the ridge of which was […]

Ahem I have finished Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, the first book in a trilogy for teenagers, which has a huge amount of creativity and readability […]