by Martel Maxwell | Sep 2, 2020 | Matters Of The Heart, Parenting, Uncategorized
“MUM, can I have some candy please?” “Some what?” “Candy.” “Right. That’s it. No more American TV. It’s not candy. It’s sweeties, or chocolate – or swetchies (You might only have heard of the latter if you’re Scottish.) “And while we’re at it,” I told the...
by Martel Maxwell | Apr 6, 2020 | Journalism, Matters Of The Heart
Have you heard we might be locked down until June, or even longer? I shouted at my friend who told me this on Facetime. She’d read it somewhere. “What?” I shouted. “Tell me you’re kidding.” She poured another glass of Prosecco; I topped up my red wine. It was 10am on...
by kreative | Mar 4, 2020 | Matters Of The Heart, Parenting
When I popped in to see a friend this week for coffee while working in Glasgow, another of her pals was there. She’d made the most delicious lemon drizzle cake and I had two giant slices – the first thing I’d eaten that day and it went downhill from there with...
by kreative | Feb 20, 2020 | Journalism, Matters Of The Heart
I thought this column on Caroline Flack would be easy to write. There is, after all, so much to say about the television presenter who took her own life on Saturday. And as a similarly-aged presenter who has been asked by various tv and radio shows to appear and talk...
