Cherries On Top

So here, in no particular order, are the reasons I like living in our quiet Yorkshire town:

1.  Top-notch fish and chips. And mushy peas. The default fish is haddock (rather than cod, as in the south). When you reach the front of the queue, instead of reciting your order in full you just say one word -”once” - […]

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Another week, another Caitlin Moran column. I didn’t get to snort my tea over the keyboard this time around - but that was only because we’ve run out of milk. I snorted in spirit, at least.
This latest Times offering muses upon Brangelina’s domestic bliss and their decision to seek a new nanny:
There will be many […]

So the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has published a study of women who resort to a website called Women on Web for abortion medicines. For £55 a time, these women receive mifepristone pills and misoprostol pills in the post. When taken in combination the pills result in a terminated pregnancy, and they can be […]

I always read Caitlin Moran in The Times - and this week’s column about Amy Winehouse made me snort tea over my keyboard.
Her central thesis is that Amy Winehouse has joined some notional Public Figures Cartoon Network in my head, along with Keef Richards, Hunter S. Thompson and Boris Johnson.
She writes:
Winehouse’s life doesn’t upset me any more. […]

Dear Jude Law,
I am writing to you further to reports in today’s newspapers, regarding your “friendship” with the young model Lily Cole.  Apparently the cherubic 20-year-old has been spotted emerging from your Maida Vale bachelor pad in a “bare-legged” and “dishevelled” condition, the day after you wined and dined her in London’s famous Theatreland.
I would like it if you […]

 
 No wonder people here are being encouraged to move to Canada.

It’s that time of year again: MOT week. I was amazed when I moved to America and discovered that cars there didn’t have to be tested, approved and stamped as roadworthy on an annual basis. (Mind you, given the propensity of my American monstermobile to break down on snowy mountainsides, in scorching deserts and at […]