THE SMALL THINGS

Today, the rat man came. Thank goodness for the rat man, or I don’t think I’d ever have written this blog again. I went away on holiday, to...

Quite often I think: I must give them something . The ‘them’ means you, the Dear Readers. I am sending something out, for you. We make a gr...

Some of the Dear Readers will be amazed to hear that I do think quite a lot about this blog. I think about it in a discrete way, often writi...

I was going to write a lovely, wandering blog for you about love, and the true meaning of the word amateur. I wrote it in my head as I was r...

A lot of wisdom and kindness from the Dear Readers this week. One of my favourite Twitter gentlemen, a fellow racing fanatic, asked me yeste...