It's that time again. School students have spent the last two weeks either celebrating or being commiserated over their A level and GCSE results.
If you were to ask which is the least likely country in Europe to host outdoor music concerts, England would be near the top of the list, just ahead of Iceland.
Dear Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Transport. I have just returned from my holidays, which, in case you care, were very pleasant.
Are you surprised that fewer people than ever are getting married?
We ended back where we had started from, quite obviously in one sense but also in a day of queues and frustrations. Also we were up for 23 hours. The day began by being up at 5.45am for a 6.15am
Day six - Crete to Nowhere - crisis looming We left Crete mid-afternoon as the wind was getting up - and not just with the present Mrs Lowe. We are now sailing for a day and a half before arriving
Britain's fattest woman, Sharon Mevsimler - who weighed a staggering 45 stone - died of a heart attack last Saturday.
Ships Blog - day five - Athens to Heraklion, Crete. It was all going so well but deep down I knew it was too good to last. Buying fake designer goods is nothing to the present Mrs Lowe compared to buying
Ships blog - Day 4 - Kusadasi to Athens I am on the turn. I think that I am beginning to enjoy cruising. Yesterday we had a lovely time in Kusadasi notwithstanding my tendency to spray money about in
Ships Blog Day 3 - Nowhere to Kusadasi, Turkey How not to haggle! Just as I signed off yesterday saying we were in the middle of nowhere with no land in sight, the Greek mainland hoved to view on the...
Messina is a beautiful town, bathed in hot sunshine. We were pestered by hawkers and peddlars of every description. But they soon disappeared and cannot be blamed, as 4,000 fairly well off tourists
Day One: Rome to Messina, Sicily We were warned to watch our P's & Q's when cruising. I don't know about the P's but we have certainly had more than our fair share of Q's. The moment we arrived at
Iknow that they say that you should try everything once except for country dancing and incest. I have another to add to that list . . . waxing. The present Mrs Lowe is now in full pre-holiday
How do you feel when you get that letter through the post to say you have been caught speeding on camera?
Last week I committed the cardinal sin of watching BBC's Question Time. The present Mrs Lowe generally prevents me from viewing it, as the usually well right of centre majority of panellists rob me of
A day at the races always meant the Marx Brothers to me. I know nothing about horses and gambling is just about the only one of life's sins that fails to excite me.