DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! This post contains spoilers. Enter at your own risk. Before I watched it, it seemed like everything I saw and heard about the Netflix remake of House of Cards came… Read More
Throughout my adult life, since I have been old enough to understand that the difference between men and women goes beyond whether you have a foo foo or a dinky, when asked (surprisingly… Read More
Dresden, a town in eastern Germany (formerly East Germany), lies on the river Elbe near the border with the Czech Republic. Famous for porcelain and its Semper Opera House, where works from Wagner… Read More
Caveat reader: Contains huge spoilers for the last season of The Closer and the whole of Forbrydelsen/The Killing. As I’ve written before, from the first moment I saw Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson… Read More
The old ball & chain and I celebrated 22 years of wedded bliss on Wednesday. What with that, the great news from UK parliament voting in favour of a same-sex marriage bill and… Read More
I was never one of those children who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. Or, rather, I knew what I wanted to be – but I wanted to be… Read More
The old ball & chain/love of my life/husband and I are currently making plans to visit New York sometime in the (hopefully) not too distant future. We agree on when we’d like to… Read More
It doesn’t take much to get me feeling festive. The first viewing of the best ever Christmas film, Elf, is the natural starting point. Decorating the tree with the kids and having a glass… Read More
Christmas is on its way, I’m definitely not the first person to tell you that lately, am I? We have our Australian family, my mother and father-in-law, visiting us in Switzerland for Christmas.… Read More
Carrie Dunn: I am going to sound like SUCH a preachy old cow. There is nothing I really want for Christmas. I have pretty much everything I could ever want. Emma Johnston: I want a… Read More
