SOMEONE sends a cartoon they’ve found on Twitter. Across the top it reads “Behind every great novelist is ...” and underneath are a row of little drawings.

IF you love camping but hate the rain, you have three choices. You can (a) stay at home and watch telly, (b) go camping in a country with a decent climate, or (c) cop out and rent a motor home.

THIS may not come as much of a newsflash, but it’s the Queen’s 60th anniversary of being the Queen of England. Sixty years of matching hats, gloves, and asking ‘and what do you do?’

OUR next door neighbour is selling his house. It has been empty for a while now, but he comes around a few times a week to do the garden, which contains rows of perfectly organised flowers. He is very polite.

FEW word combinations cause more consternation than ‘gay’ and ‘marriage’.

MY fortysomething friend’s twentysomething daughter has just had her second baby.

Having not made it onto the Sunday Times Rich List again, you could well find yourself pimping your spare room out.

AT a time when eat-a-lot pets are experiencing the rough end of human economic fall-out, those lovely people at Dog’s Trust Dublin have sent out a Canine Charter For Human Health to remind us of the mental and physical benefits of dog ownership.

IT is less than 100 days before the Olympics begin. Normally they happen a long haul flight away and are of little interest to anyone but the athletes’ mothers, because watching fit people with numbers pinned to their chests running around in circles is nearly as bad as watching golf.

AN Easter walk over rolling hills sounds lovely, all wide-open space and baby lambs and blue sky.