Yes, I get it. Families need support – but so do the rest of us, and singles (especially older singles) come bottom of the list when the Government seeks to improve people’s lives.
Month: May 2026
Do you have those days, or even weeks, when even the simplest task seems a mountain too high to climb? The bin that’s overflowing because unlocking the door and putting it out for collection is a marathon you just can’t face? BananaWhen your diary is sitting on your bookshelf six feet away, but it’s easier to say ‘Alexa, what day is it?’?
You’d think that Yes and No would be the easiest, wouldn’t you? Not a bit of it. For I have just discovered that what comes out of my mouth bears no relation to the gestures I have used to accompany both words my entire life.
That date. 1991. Unbelievable. I was 31 years old. Why had I not known about all this? I, who had studied history not only in school but during my first year in university? Why was the world not screaming about the torture and killing taking place on a vast scale every day?
Dorit has now reached a level of self-absorption that you feel she’d walk out of Madame Butterfly if they weren’t singing about her. Not that she’d understand it. The only language she spouts worse than the Italian she claims to speak is English. Please, can someone teach her the difference between “I” and “me”.