Bm@ail: Forty years of friendship - without Facebook!

BY THE time you read this I hope I will have spent a long weekend on a little island off the west coast of Great Britain. No, not Ireland - the Isle of Man.Read

Bm@ail: Is Britain's love affair with tea in decline?

YOU know that I love a good survey but I’m disturbed by the latest research which shows that the traditional British cuppa is under threat.Read

Bm@il: So when did England get abolished?

I am pleased to hear that human rights lawyers are preparing a case against the Scottish government's decision Read

Bm@il: Fish finger sandwich was a little disappointing

Have you heard that ‘retro’ food is all the rage? Read

Bm@il: Riots were a little too close to home

I suspect the riots of two weeks ago will be a topic of conversation for weeks or months to come.Read

Bm@il: Shout cheese if you want to stop

We recently had a most bizarre experience on our way to visit friends in Somerset.Read

Craving some retro nosh - and non-smokers' rights!

HOW come the low fat veriety is just a whisker behind the full-on version when it comes to 'baddies'?Read

Bm@il: Silly Sally should grow up

Come on, Sally, you're not a Stepford wife - you're a modern woman who clearly has her own mind, and hurray for that.Read

B@Mail: Calm down, take a stroll

WE ARE told that working on a computer for hours without a break can lead to all manner of unspeakable things.Read

B@Mail: A packed social calendar

MR F and I have recently been invited to some great local events, starting with a triple anniversary concert to mark 30 years of Hillingdon Choral Society, 25 years of Hillingdon Philharmonic Orchestra, and the 60th birthday of their conductor, Peter Williams. Read

Bm@il: Time to honour our heroes

TOMORROW is the gala awards night for this year's Local Heroes finalists, and it is the first time the ceremony has been held in the summer. This wonderful event, a joint effort between Uxbridge College and the Uxbridge Gazette, has been going for about a decade.Read

Bm@il:I loved lunch in locomotion

I WAS most upset to read about the demise of the dining car on trains after more than a century. Of course it is still possible to have a diluted version of this with companies such as Eurostar, but in May, Britain's final full-scale restaurant car service, from King's Cross to Leeds, was scrapped.Read

Bm@il: Wrecking allotments is just a mean thing to do

IWAS sorry to read that security has had to be tightened at Hayes allotments after a series of problems there (Protecting fruit of their labour, Hayes and Harlington Gazette, May 25).Read

Bm@il: 'Twits' ought be accountable

SHOULD I be getting excited about super injunctions taken out by the rich and famous? To be honest, I've better things to worry about, such as washing my hair, feeding the birds and drinking wine with Mr F.Read

Bm@il: Making hay in sunshine

I'M OFF to another bash - no, it's too early for Glastonbury - I'm going to a literary event. Well, that's what they call book festivals these days. I broke my duck at Oxford a few years ago when I donned blue stockings and sensible lace-ups (not really) for a talk by author Mavis Cheek at Christchurch College.Read

Bm@il: De clutter get in de way

I WAS relieved to read that we don't have to blame loss of memory simply on advancing age. Canadian scientists carried out the research on 'working memory' - that's the bit which holds information while we decide what to do with it.Read

Bm@il: Looking like Cleopatra and mascara'd to max

I READ that one in three women won't step out of the house without a touch of lipstick, a lick of mascara or even the whole works: a fully made-up face. The one option they won't ever consider is the bare-faced look.Read

Bm@il: Forced to admit I'm an old git

EASTER is a Christian festival now but, of course, it dates back much further. One legend centres on a Saxon goddess who helped an injured bird through the winter by changing it into a hare that laid eggs.Read

Bm@il: These stars will never fade

WHEN I was a new reporter, one of my first contacts was Netta Sands, who sadly died last year.Read

Bm@il: Fat pigeons and a robin

FOLLOWING my public humiliation with the ducks, you'd think I'd have learned my lesson. Remember how I proudly (smugly?) proclaimed I was feeding them during the cold spell? Then readers emailed me to point out bread was very bad for them. Oops.Read

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