the widow's world

I'm afraid my blogging will be subject to an enforced interregnum due to the failure of my laptop's power cable. I have a new one on...

Today's blog is another of my occasional retrospectives. This time, I've chosen a selection of posts from last March which give a fl...

Today is Census Day in the UK and as someone who finds statistics and demographics intriguing, I've dutifully completed and filed mine o...

Earlier this week I popped into Starbucks (as you do) for a Double Caramel Macchiato to go and I noticed they were advertising a number of d...

This week, I've chosen the extraordinary Paloma Faith (whom I had assumed was American but turns out to be a Londoner).  This is a live...