I’ve been catching up on the Corduroy Mansions. There’s a lot going on, the pace has quickened, adventures are afoot and some of them leaving bigger footprints than others. Barbara is heading to the country and lashings of clean air but she is having doubts. Does “you are so very welcome to our family” really [...]

I’m a trifle bemused to see that all my friends on twitter are trending on the X Factor – I never watch the show in the later stages, I just catch the early ones, perhaps two at the most for the pure entertainment of the no hopers. Does that make me a bad person? I’m [...]

We are now coming zooming in to focus on Caroline at close up range as she prepares for a cosy dinner for two with the ‘boyf’. After a chance meeting in the street with a neighbour, the eccentric Berthea Snark, who is more reminiscent of a Titus Groan character than the psychologist Sloane she truly [...]