THE SMALL THINGS

The last few weeks have been rather fraught and complicated for reasons too catastrophically labyrinthine and dull to go into. But this...

Today, I went from sheer joy to sheer terror within ten minutes. I had ridden up to HorseBack for my riding lesson. It’s about two an...

In Seventy-Seven Ways to Make Your Life Very Slightly Better, I wrote a chapter on sharing with the group. I wrote about writing things d...

A very sweet thing happened today. It was a small thing but it felt like a big thing. I don’t accost famous people on social media. I...

Someone I love did something so elegant, so courteous, so big-hearted today that it left me without words. I mouthed helplessly at the te...

Today I did something I was afraid of. I jumped a course of jumps.  Last year I signed up for a charity challenge to do a one-day-eve...

Eight days without cigarettes!!! EIGHT DAYS. Clearly this has reduced me to Trumpian capitals and exclamation marks. Which is yugely sad....

Concentration absolutely buggered. Is that in the literature? I can’t remember, since I’ve got no concentration. I go to the Google every...

I blink at the screen like a confused owl, slightly amazed by so many kind comments, both here and even more on Facebook. I always find...

I have given up smoking. I feel rather stupidly embarrassed that I should have to write that sentence, because what the buggery bol...

I'm in a huge work storm just now, so I'm going to have a little break from the blog. For those of you who like the horse stuff,...

Despite the fact that I was pretending to be very butch about it, I was rather dreading hitting fifty. I know it’s only a number and it...

I wrote a long and rather serious and possibly controversial blog today. Then I stared at it in doubt. Did I really want to wade into t...

I’ve been feeling a bit ropey for the last few days. People in the village say there is a bug going round. But I don’t have time for bu...