More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carol….

A library is a palace of dreams..

Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someon….

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a ….

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there..

Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say,….

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily..

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achie….

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail..

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes..

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height..

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work..