Sweet Potato Chocolate Spread

What if I told you that 2 tbsp of this spread provides you with all the vitamin A you need in a day? Sounds too good to be true? Well it isn...

Recharged Batteries

Yesterday morning I felt as though I'd come out of hibernation. I sat listening to The Archers (when is that Rob Tichener going to get h...

Big Worlds In Small Places

Nothing in our home was ever thrown away if it had any chance of being used for something else.  We recycled before there were centrally loc...

More on The Lone Pine Club play

Last week I blogged about the exciting news that the Pentabus Theatre Company is planning to put on a play called The Lone Pine Club by Ali...

No gritting for White Grit

Heather Kidd , the Liberal Democrat councillor for Chirbury and Worthen, has been making waves in the Shropshire Star. According to the pape...

Robert Palmer: Some Guys Have All the Luck

He helped to define that odd era in the Eighties when pop stars wore suits, but Robert Palmer had been around for a long time. In particular...

England's cricketers are not the problem: it's the people who run the game

View image | gettyimages.com Nich Hoult writes harshly bur fairly about England's disarray against Australia today: At the moment it f...

The same novelist wrote Planet of the Apes and Bridge on the River Kwai

Thanks to Will Howells for giving me my Trivial Fact of the Day. The films Planet of the Apes and Bridge on the River Kwai were both based ...

Why everyone always receives a great reception on the doorstep

Nothing is more tedious than those tweets telling you that campaigners from every party have just received "a great reception on the do...