Last night I watched most of Genesis of the Daleks with Anna. Her friend from school had lent her the DVD - although we didn't get to see much of ...

During my pen-and-pencil retail therapy some days ago I picked a Prismacolor Col-Erase Carmin Red pencil. I'm informed by PencilTalk that Sanford which have been making these pencils along with ...

This week, I thought I’d share my progress on my novel, which I announced that I’d start work on in the beginning of this month.  There are two reasons for ...

Ali 'Ollie' Woodson, a former lead singer of The Temptations, has died aged 58.He was the main voice of The Temptations for most of the 1980s and 90s, and wrote ...

See that Twitter, it gets you into all sorts of trouble.I noticed just at the end of the F1 Forum on the Red Button that Iain Dale was on LBC ...

The winners of the first annual Moby book trailer awards have been announced. Dennis Cass won in the Best Performance by an Author category. His amusing trailer called "Book Launch ...

I know that nobody would ever have anticipated the need to replace David Laws, but there was a huge amount of surprise last night on Twitter even from Liberal Democrats, ...

I am still pretty heartbroken at the circumstances surrounding David Laws' resignation from the Cabinet.It was so sad to watch him make what must have been an excruciatingly painful statement ...

Gopal and his friends found ways to bunk classEach day giving the lecturer different causeOne of the lecturer was very strictWhich one day put Gopal in a fix.He was absent ...

A review of Ian Clayton’s Bringing It All Back Home by Gary McMahon Bringing It All Back Home, by Ian Clayton (Route publishing), is a beautiful lark that becomes profound so ...

David Laws and I are about as far apart in our political thinking as it's possible to get within the Liberal Democrats. The Orange Book, for which he was one ...

Fights among friends in classTo sit to get a comfortable placeWas what Gopal and his friend was doingWhen teacher history lesson was teaching.India and Pakistan fought three warsAnd military ...

Diff'rent Strokes television star Gary Coleman has died after suffering a brain haemorrhage.He was 42.He was best known for his role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, ...

When I was a child, I used to really enjoy watching Diff'rent Strokes. I seem to remember it was on on a Friday tea time and the wee child actor ...

I just love the Eurovision Song Contest. Always have. Always will. You can get your whole year's supply of tackiness and camp in just a few hours and I don't ...

BBC pit lane reporter Ted Kravitz never ceases to amaze me. Not only does he bring us the news about whose hydraulics are playing up, or who has a nice ...

Time flies! It has been a whole six months since Palimpsest made its appearance in the blogosphere and it feels like celebrating and spreading the joy. So here it goes. A ...

The Ministry of Defence has named a Royal Marine who died in Afghanistan on Wednesday.Corporal Stephen Curley was 26 years old. He was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.He was married ...

If you had any doubt about signing up to buy a piece of the land threatened by Donald Trump in his Aberdeenshire development, then think about what he said yesterday ...

Well, there are more disappointing things than not having an iPad. However much I want one, it's the worst name for a product in the history of time.Jo Swinson's tweet ...