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The Dr has made available online the full text of her memoir, My Baby Box , which deals with her (our) experience of infertility, the death ...

The Dr is one of the expert "muses" featured in Alex Andreou's new Podyssey podcast series. Each episode begins with Alex rete...

This is fantastic - the moving, funny, emotional tale of teenage Valentina negotiating loss and love. The Dr bought it for me as a Valentin...

Exciting news! The clever Dr has curated an exhibition which opens this Saturday, 1 February, and runs until 14 March, at Senate House in Lo...

It is 10 years today since the death of our eldest daughter, Emily Maud, aged just eight days' old. I blogged about what happened  that ...

Pedro, by Nimbos This morning, we took turns to say goodbye to Pedro, our grumpy, once-chonky cat, before the Dr escorted him away on one la...

Dr and me, about 2002 Twenty years ago this evening I took the Dr - though she was not then a Dr - to the pub to pitch a modest proposal: I ...

The latest issue of the Doctor Who: Chronicles (from the makers of  Doctor Who Magazine ) is focused on the year 2007, which in a weird, sc...

I've been meaning to get to this mystery novel for years. The Dr is a fan of Josephine Tey, and also of Nicola Upson's series of nov...

Entirely selfishly, I bought this for the Dr's birthday so that I could read it. It's the third in a trilogy, after Crooked Heart a...

The removals people said they'd be here between 8 and 8.30 this morning but arrived just after 7.30 while I was still drinking tea in be...

Out today, Doctor Who Magazine issue #535 includes my interview with Feifei Ruan , the illustrator and visual storyteller who created th...

It has taken months and been painfully more expensive than expected, but I now have a shed/office up and running, and my daughter no longer...

This morning, the Dr and I took our poorly, frail cat Shaggy to the vet one last time, where he was quietly put to sleep. It was quick. I...