In 1986, when I was ten years old, I had a Saturday job washing the dishes at a small coffee shop located in my beautiful hometown of Melrose, in the...
Having decided to mark our seventeenth wedding anniversary this year, Mr McGowan and I took a trip down memory lane and returned to the place where we spent our honeymoon, Cannes. The resort,...
It was about midday on a Sunday when I heard the door of Favourite Son’s “boy cave” open. I call it “boy cave” because: He seems to have been hibernating...
“They cost how much?!” Words that would be echoed in many households on the run-up to Christmas, especially those homes with teenagers. While I waited for the response from Favourite...
3 minute read. Of all of the social networks out there (and, according to Wikipedia, there are 204 active, non-dating networks), LinkedIn is my channel of choice. Don’t get me...
Lucy Robinson (mark 3, Melissa Bell) from Neighbours was the answer. Nothing odd about this I suppose until you know the question. ‘Who inspired me to choose marketing as a...
My favourite daughter recently informed me that we would not be going on any more family holidays. Let me clarify a couple of points here: Firstly, I have not committed...
Music festivals. What usually comes to mind, to those of us over the age of 40 at least, are dirty toilets, awful camping and laddish (or ladette) type behaviour –...
We have lived in our current home for just over 12 years, and I can still remember the day we first walked across the stone-covered driveway as we made our...
Goals – we all have them whether we realise it or not. The ultra organised amongst us will write them down, along with a plan on how to achieve them...
