Libra Love Horoscope for the Week of August 30

For good or ill, other people – friends and lovers alike – are your teachers about boundary issues. Knowing where to draw the line becomes easier when you allow it to be more fluid than the strictly mapped-out fence you’re imagining. A one-size-fits-all approach may be tidier from a mental perspective, but it’s just not […]

Newsletter 29/8/10

What a gorgeous weekend! I ventured into the garden on Saturday and very quickly ventured back out again. My husband tells me that I need to plan properly what I need to get done- which is his way of:
 

Putting off the work- he knows how rarely I am …

Daily Planets Monday 30/8/10

I have been thinking about bucket lists an awful lot lately. I don’t know whether that is because of the whole age thing (I still have problems saying the 4 prefix before my age & I am 3 years into it!) or whether it is because I am just in a…

LeCarre outs James Bond as "neo-fascistic"

A few months ago I picked up my tattered, yellowed paperback copy of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and happily reread it. The last time must have been over 20 years ago. Even yellowed, the drama kept its grim sparkle intact.So when I heard that author John LaCarre, former MI5 and MI6 agent for Britain back in the day, had outed Ian Fleming’s character James Bond as not really a spy but "