Recipes, Tales and Adventures

Last week, Keir Starmer announced a social media ban for under-16s. What does that mean? One girl who has apparently gone viral on social media pla...

The Murphy household is a TV-free zone. Beatrix was a Border Collie who wrote her own ending. And somewhere between a campervan in the Lake District and a 17-minute countdown, everything changed.

Evie is back from the campervan hospital, Ursula is loaded up, and the forecast says rain. Naturally, I headed straight for Blair Atholl. Three nights, 48 miles, a castle, chunky chips, a German cyclist's question about midgets, and a man in Dalwhinnie who wouldn't share his bench. All in a day's work.

I have never been good with numbers. Never. Not even a little bit. This week I've been thinking about the teacher who made sure that never mattered — and about the rather wonderful way life brought her back into mine decades later. Oh, and there's a guitar involved.