Life with a Jolly Parent is a bit like life in a holiday camp. The beds are too small and there's an outbreak of Salmonella every five minutes.

For a start, let's look at the Grotto itself. By and large these are extremely aptly named, 'Grot' meaning rubbish and 'Oh' being exclamation of disappointed s…

Flash Teacher: How to spot: He'll be the only member of staff who drives a customized Lada.

It's easy to forget you are in debt to the tune of ?10, and to a woman who never forgets anything. Crikey, she can even tell you which Coronation Street charac…

It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually …

My mother didn't breast-feed me. She said she liked me as a friend.

You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybo…