The Mummy Diaries: Two babies - Week 12

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, tears and strops. No, I’m not talking about my kids – that’s me! D-Day for Jamie and I finally arrived on Friday. The day I had to leave him for a couple of ...

The greatest pop song – ever?

MY 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER came in to the kitchen the other night and said “Do you mind if I play something on the iPod?”  She then proceeded to play “Hey Jude”, a song written and recorded by ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 11

THE TIME HAS COME for me and Jamie to part ways. As dramatic as that sounds, it's for two mornings a week at a local creche. The idea came to me on a whim – ...

The Mummy Diaries:Two babies – Week 10

NOTHING quite presses buttons like a toddler on a mission. This week we’ve been pushing boundaries in more ways than one. My patience has been tested to the limit and I’ve never seen determination in ...

A letter from Jacob Rees Mogg MP – why we should “Chuck Chequers”

Jacob Rees Mogg MP, Chairman of the backbench European Research Group, has written to Conservative Association Chairmen in response to the Prime Minister's letter to all Conservative members – we thought it deserved a wider readership...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 9

WE’VE REACHED the time that every new mummy dreads. The first jags. Now, I know it’s a process of being cruel to be kind and it has to be done, and I should know what ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 8

HOW TO DEAL with a 2-month-old and the terrible twos? Anyone? We have well and truly entered the dreaded terrible two phase this week. To be honest, I had read about this and been told ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 7

THANKFULLY we managed to survive a full week without the family helpers. The next challenge however, was to manage an outing with just my two little darlings and me!

This week has ...

Cricket was a metaphor for how Alex Fergusson lived his life

THE FIRST TIME l met Alex Fergusson was in April 1999 when he was one of our candidates in the first Scottish Parliament election campaign.

I had spent most of that month being ...

The Mummy Diaries: 2 babies - Week 6

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY to our gorgeous boy Jamie! I honestly can’t believe he’s two years old already. Everyone told me to enjoy every second of them as babies as the time goes in so fast. ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies - Week 5

WELL, it’s now week five and so far we have managed to keep the house from disappearing under a pile of dust and toys and the babies are now starting to adjust to life with ...

Scotland should follow New Zealand – and democratise distilling

IT'S BEEN OVER TEN YEARS now since ol' Popcorn Sutton (pictured) ran his last run of moonshine in the Appalachians and over twenty since New Zealand took the hillbilly out of home distillation in a ...