THE SMALL THINGS

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I like to know things. Probably in some murky corner of my subconscious I believe that if I know enough I sha...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. If you are, as I am, a well-brought up sort of person, you will have been given many stern rules about the makin...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I have a large and complicated family with steps and halves and all sorts. One of the lovely things about thi...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I wasn’t going to do this, because it will mean ad hominem attacks and once you start on the ad hominem you know...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Sarah writes an excellent article about her run-in with swine flu today in The Times. Have a look at it here - ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. As seems to be becoming traditional on a Monday, I veer between old lady grumpiness and the sunniness of a new w...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. The reason you only see Sarah making occasional appearances on this blog is that she is very busy writing for Th...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Yesterday I wrote a jolly little piece about mild grumpiness. Today, I got a call that reminded me I had nothin...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. It's that kind of Monday. Nothing awful has happened; there was no life-shattering event over the weekend. ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. There are twenty different things I have wanted to blog about this week, and I have done none of them, because a...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Inspired by a plaintive wail on Twitter from my fellow blogger La Beet about having to produce a supper from so...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I have not had time to watch enough of the Trafalgar Square plinth to decide whether it is a bold and thrilling ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I am considering collecting a series of idiotic headlines and making them into a book. It would be more socially...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Happy Independence Day, everyone. It is too hot to blog, but you know I hate leaving you with nothing, so here a...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. It's all very well, this talk of pop icons and tennis stars, but sometimes one just has to come back to the ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. The currently agreed narrative on Andy Murray is to do with his Scottishness. Last year, he was excoriated in th...

Posted by Sarah Vine. I knew something wasn't quite right with Michael Jackson when I heard that he and Lisa Marie Presley went on honey...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. A small note on the text. I have hesitated for two days over whether to put up this post. It is going to ma...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. And so, at last, the end is near.... A small diversion on tennis: My theory on putting in the hard work of writi...