Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.