We have a new album out and are determined that ageing won’t stop us seizing the day
Forwards we go, embracing the new. Although, I’m a bit worried my doctor is soon going to tell me I…
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Letter of the week: The health challenge
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My adventure in burlesque
A combination of masochism and narcissism sent me onstage.
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All it takes to transform me is the warmth of the first rays of the summer sun
I am going to put my nose in lilac and honeysuckle and roses and be generally unbearable with luxuriousness.
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Among my life’s highlights is the time I made Martin Amis slap his thigh with laughter
Ever since then, when I have been feeling down, or stupid, or generally undervalued, I have consoled myself with this…
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Letter of the week: Educating Bridget
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A transcendent singalong with Bruce Springsteen in Rome
Also this week: great journalists remembered, and a duck called Puskás.
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Some birthday… my shoulder is so bad I cannot pull a cork from a bottle
The pills might as well be Smarties, the gel salad cream. So booze it is.
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