Yes, it's that time again. I'm looking back at the year gone by, and once more it's all me me me. (Elsewhere on the blog I...

Another bumper year of visits to schools has passed and taken me further afield than possibly any previous year, thanks both to Authors A...

  (above, a clip of Well Did You Evah , from Romeo and Juliet. Click to play ) I'm thinking the Socks 2016 show will be Shakespeare...

Brand new from the Socks, and quite a rarity this season, a video ( click pic to play ). They've revisited Little Drummer Boy , a th...

This season of Doctor Who didn't make my Top Ten TV of the Year, the first time it's failed to do so since I started keeping count....

At a dinner party back in January we became aware of a present day syndrome by which, when four or more people are gathered together, no ...