Diary of a Goldfish

The weather here is atrocious. The snow on Friday barely touched us – there’s so much salt in the air that it rarely settles in Whitby, alth...

My resolutions are going okay. I have been listening to almost all the recommendations you gave (w1ldchild mentioned Jamie Cullum, for cryi...

Possibly following Vaughan’s suggestion that I should listen to Beethoven and The Beach Boys, I had a strange dream in which I heard Good V...

This is a heavy socio-political post. If you’re feeling fragile, I’d leave it here. Some things one has to get out of one's system... Pe...

(may contain spoilers; I’m not going to be overly careful). 3.It’s a Wonderful Life George Bailey’s (James Stewart) ambition has been thwar...

My period of misery is over. I could have to cope with this crap for weeks yet and let’s face it, given exactly where we are now in the year...

For ages I wondered why it is that other people I know, who are often far more incapacitated than I am, manage to cope so well with long-ter...