I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.