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Books give you somewhere to go when you must stay where you are - and you can be someone else when you get there. Last night was #WorldBookNight - my contribution being to finish Billy Connolly’s Made in Scotland.  I started reading this hugely funny book while on a weekend break to Rome in late February - just as Covid-19 was emerging in the north of the country. We got home and I forgot about the book…     Although...

Valentine’s day is February 14th – which is a Friday this year folks! Camps are truly divided on this occasion – it’s definitely a 50-50 split between those giddy romantics who make plans for the entire weekend and those who roll their eyes, or even close their eyes, when confronted with the hearts and cards. And we totally get it – not everyone is in a relationship – and not everyone in a relationship feels they need a date on...

Christmas has been with us for over two centuries, in one form or another. It may be tempting then, for some of us to imagine that we are as familiar with the occasion as we possibly can be. But Christmas is changing and nowhere is this change more evident than in the world of shopping. The ways we get our Christmas presents from the manufacturer to the foot of our Christmas Trees is being utterly transformed. Some of these changes...