Back in the height of summer, I got around to cutting some ivy (a creeper plant) from the top of the fence at the back of my garden....

I turned over to a new page in my notebook. At the top of the page, I wrote in capitals “A List Of Things That I Control”.  I sat there...

Within minutes of arriving home in Berkshire on a recent Sunday evening after seeing my family in South Wales for the weekend, I went...