Published in Choice Magazine – 1st July 2002 DOS AND DON’TS Get accommodation if possible with a spare bed or bedroom, or a usable sofa. Sleeping habits vary a lot. Some people want to go to bed with the dusk; some with the dawn. Some like hard...
Press release: Published 1st June 2002 - BACP Recently, an anonymous patient sued the NHS because she wasn't offered counselling after an abortion. Nor was she warned that psychological complications could follow the operation. This legal action raises issues of vital concern to patients, counsellors, the NHS and tax-payers. Few people relish...
Notes towards an article 15th January 2002 What's wrong with soccer is soccer (and what's right with rugby is rugby). It is too often said that the problems with soccer are social. I would rather say the trouble with soccer is soccer. The game is riddled with violence, corruption, thuggery,...
Published in The Independent May 4th 2000 Persephone, Lily, Daffodil, Crocus, Forsythia and Rose. Remember these names - if your senescent brain is up to it. Scientists say these six cloned cows with their floral nomenclature have cells which are biologically younger than those of newborns....
Published in the Daily Mail April 11th 2000 Noel Edmonds is not afraid of much. He'll drive a racing car to the limit, or land his helicopter on your front lawn. But he doesn't mind admitting he's dead scared of prostate cancer. The fear began with the final...
Commissioned by the Daily Mail August 8th 1999 Q: Who was your first girlfriend...
Commissioned by You Magazine for the Mail on Sunday July 7th 1999 When my father died, I had to finish the cheese he started. His fridge became my fridge and still sits in my kitchen opened daily for snacks and feeding the cats. When my father died,...
(Published The Independent, June 2nd 1999). Dear Phillip, As you probably know, I'm replacing you as agony columnist for Woman's Journal in September. I'm in a bit of a muddle as to whether I'm doing the right thing. One or two medical colleagues say they are shocked...
Commissioned by the Daily Mail April 3rd 1999 There was nothing so politically incorrect as the old-fashioned office party. In the 1980s, everyone used to do everything and live with the embarrassment in the morning. My most tricky moment occurred after a special magazine party when I was...
Commissioned by the Daily Mail January 11th 1999 Well the least said about teenage the better. I was like a toddler scaling the Himalayas. When I unexpectedly caught the attention of a girl in the Upper Sixth, we spent ALL our time on training exercises and checking our equipment....