Every New Year’s day I think about the birthday I will have NEXT year – ie, 2027.  I’m born quite late in the year, so it always makes me realise how old I’m getting to have to contemplate the sentence “Next year I’m X-yrs old!”  Not that’s it’s any of your business, but it’s fifty-three, […]

I just wanted to wish you a “Merry Kweenuz!“, as Baldrick said in Blackadder’s Christmas Carol. That’s it really – just an expressed hope you find time and space to enjoy the week ahead – switch off from whatever you normally have to do and enjoy doing whatever it is you’d prefer to do instead, […]

PC Hollie Matthews of Essex was horrifically attacked whilst on duty two years ago. Today, Declan Diedrick, 25 from Essex has been jailed for five years after stabbing her in the head and assaulting her colleague, Acting Sergeant Gemma Sandy. Originally charged with two counts of attempted murder, he was found guilty of lesser but still […]