What a magnificent blue Supermoon we had this week. As Neil and Pete our intrepid astro physicists on the Mike Powell Listeners Group on Facebook tell us, such spectacles are extremely rare. Meanwhile...
You might have seen the recent fabulous series of The Real Marigold On Tour adventures where a motley crew of fabulous eccentrics travel round the world trying to identify where would be best for them...
Thanks to those who kept me company through the night on Radio 2 Tuesday night into Wednesday morning as the newsreader retreated to her boudoir with a dreaded lurgy. Hopefully you can join me on Clas...
In most workplaces in the land there seems to be hierarchy. Those who have been there the longest, those who are seen to be the most talented by ‘the powers that be’ and those who are laud...
Twelfth Night has passed and so has 2017. Never again will we write those numbers on our cheques; unless of course you’re buying something for that exact amount, which would be random, yet plausible...
Click on the link above to hear my Mellow Moment for Christmas, or click on the video below to see and hear the track alone… So the big day has arrived. All the panic, rush and frenzy can give w...
In the very early hours of my birthday I was woken suddenly by a power cut. Being the depths of mid winter everywhere was plunged into darkness, the heating conked out and there was an eery quietness....
Another strange week on planet earth then. It seems a certain man is intent on stomping around the globe poking everyone with a stick until they take notice of him. And off that doesn’t work he ...
So here we are in the meteorological season of Winter. The month when the Solstice heralds glimmers of brightness on the horizon. The season of Advent also starts this weekend. A time of eager anticip...
This week I’ve said goodbye to my lovely Aunty who died after the devastating disease dementia got a grip. She went exactly 4 months after my baby brother died and last week I attended the funer...