MEL'S MEANDERINGS. CAPTIVITY.

I get easily distracted. My mind meanders in the real world as well as my blog. I am having a conversation about one thing and suddenly...

Every morning my wife asks me what my plans are for the day. That’s only after she’s received her coffee in bed ( made by me as the...

It takes one small event to cause a seismic change. Like a picture hook falling from my wall. Or a spark from a baker’s in Pudding Lane...

I’ve managed to refrain from writing about The Big V directly. It’s a bit like Trump. Thrives on publicity and I really don’t want to...

I like a bet as you know by now. Particularly on the horses. Not so keen on casinos as there is at least some skill in working out which...

About eighty years ago, a radio broadcast of “ War of the Worlds “ by Orson Wells, had people running through the streets of New York in...

Settle down, children. Have you signed in to the register? Stop looking out of the window, stop shuffling your feet, put down your rulers...

We all have different approaches to this Big V situation. Me, I am loving the texts I am getting from the NHS ever since they assessed me...

So, we begin within another obscure music reference just for 94-year-old Isabella. As Hedgehoppers Anonymous once sang “ It’s Good News...

There’s a plot going on in The Archers at the moment which involves Slave Labour. One of the characters who’s a builder, Philip Moss, is...

You may feel that what I am about to do in today’s blog is cheating. But I think after coming up with original material for 32 of these...

I must be the least informed person in the world when it comes to the Big V and I am thinking that the purpose of my daily blog ( well,...

Now, I’ve heard everything. I’ve expressed my views about the intelligence of the great majority of the American population before ( that...

It never rains but it pours. I listed everybody yesterday who had suddenly decided I was vulnerable and suddenly Tesco joined the party...

I mean, it’s all very well for Giles Coren and Melanie Reid and Josh Clancy and Robert Crampton who write their once a week columns in...

You know how some television programmes start with a warning. “ This programme contains sex, nudity and some scenes that viewers of a...

Morning, morning. Seems like I’ve never been away, doesn’t it ? Last two days of Passover came and went. Made a real change, because...

My friend Galit, who lives in Israel with her footballing goalkeeper husband, Ran, was exchanging texts with me yesterday ( by the wa,...

I do tend to get all my news from The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio in the morning ( 6.30am-9am ) Well, I say all of my...

Mel’s Meanderings New World Day 24 Did you miss me? It’s been three whole days since I blogged, during the course of which I have eaten...