nickhereandnow

Two of you asked me for more details of the falling chimney that almost finished me off. I was a child at the time (not sure what age). I ca...

It's a long time since I did a Question and Answer, so I thought I'd do another one. Respectable questions only of course, nothing t...

One thing that's changed for the better during my lifetime is clothing etiquette. Clothing was much more formal when I was young, but ov...

I tend to get annoyed when someone asks how my retirement is going, and I'm trying to work out why. I think it's because either they...

Wills are normally dealt with behind closed doors and out of the public eye. It's generally assumed that the will was properly dealt wit...

Would you be happy to live in a house that's covered with doodles from top to bottom? With not a single square inch left uncovered - doo...

There are the major annoyances that drive you crazy. Then there are the petty irritations that niggle at you but are more or less endurable....

I don't understand how the TV companies decide on trigger warnings. They give frequent warnings about things that seem trivial, but igno...

The respect for authority figures that was the norm when I was growing up has gradually crumbled over the years. Crumbled so far in fact tha...

The big feature of cancel culture (aka polarisa-tion) is that it puts "being offended" into a whole new context. "Being offen...

It never ceases to amaze me how people will believe not only the unlikely but the clearly impossible. Even if other people pick a hundred ho...

Tact. "Skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues". A word that isn't used much these days, but per...

One thing Jenny and I have never dared to do is take on a "fixer-upper" (a crumbling old house that needs a lot of work to put it ...

It's taken for granted nowadays that tourism and travelling around the world is completely normal, and anyone who prefers to stay at hom...

The only time I've cycled regularly was between the ages of 18 and 20 when I didn't have a car and as a local journalist I needed to...

Pre nuptial agreements have been around for a while, but most couples still marry without one. Are they a good idea or not? Certainly Jenny ...

There are many things people do that leave me scratching my head in bewilderment. Why do people do these things? What's the great attrac...

For as long as I can remember, I've been very physically demon-strative. I love hugging and kissing and holding hands, to me it's fr...

There's a British TV drama right now called "Marriage", which depicts marriage as being boring, frustrating and claustro-phobi...

Why do some people think it's okay to force their beliefs or their principles onto others, along with abuse, threats and self-righteous ...