Carol Hedges

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Well, it certainly is here. Little G and I have found a small covered shopping arcade t...

Where have all the tangerines gone? Shops used to be full of them. Now all you seem to be able to buy are those satsuma things that look ...

I am teaching Little G good manners.   As soon as we get on the bus and the inevitable: 'Snack ... snack .... snack' rigmarole ...

Little G has recently learned a new word: amazing. Or as she pronounces it: AMAZING!!!! I am taking full credit for this as I say it fre...

Stewart is another of those fascinating people I know via the great social whirlpool that is - ta-daa: Twitter. For some reason he has ex...

Over the eight months that I have been minding Little G , I have come to the conclusion that grandmothers hold up half the sky. Well, it ...

So the great monopoly that is Amazon, having closed a gazillion bookshops by its undercutting pricing policy has now opened....ta-dah: ...

Now that Little G has gone from sedentary to ambulatory, shop windows have taken on a whole new significance. Gone are the days when we ...

Whenever I mention that I write Victorian crime fiction, people always comment upon the infamous crinoline. Why on EARTH would women put ...

Now that Little G is officially walking, and requesting to do it everywhere we go, our routine has taken on new vistas. Admitted they ar...