Bradford Telegraph and Argus | Emma Clayton

Tis the season to be scary

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:29:18 +0000

"It’s a glorified Sunday dinner - how hard can it be?" That’s what I thought a couple of months ago when I foolishly agreed to cook Christmas dinner for several members of my family.

Guilty pleasure

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:38:19 +0000

"Sorry Mr Banker, but no deal." Those words meant nothing to me until about this time last week when I started to develop a fascination with Deal or No Deal. By the time I realised there was no actual skill involved - it's just people opening boxes and getting all emotional about it - I was hooked.

Tat's what I like

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:39:50 +0100

There it was, nestled between the Sagrada Familia paperweight and the matador and bull-shaped salt and pepper pots.

Happier families

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:01:28 +0100

Well done to T&A green columnist Keith Thomson for highlighting China’s family-size policies as an example of how to stabilise a population - something perhaps all nations should be addressing in the ecological time bomb that is the 21st century.

A bit green as an eco-bag lady

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:32:35 +0100

I’ve got enough ‘bags-for-life’ to last me several lifetimes. Having been browbeaten into feeling guilty for even contemplating using a plastic bag while out shopping, I eventually got round to buying one of those big supermarket eco bags. That was several months ago, and I can probably count the number of times I’ve used it on one hand. I keep it in the boot of my car, where it very rarely sees the light of day.

Nintendo generation brought to book

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:53:21 +0100

Call me old-fashioned but my heart always sinks a bit at the sight of young children staring into little hand-held computer screens, shutting out the world as they tap away to a soundtrack of tinny music and inane beeping noises.

Living the Sex And The City dream

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:47:00 +0100

A friend of mine once went through a traumatic break-up with her boyfriend and at the time she kept telling herself that everything would be okay "because they’re making another Jurassic Park movie."

Back to school

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:28:00 +0100

More than 20 years after I left my old convent school I recently found myself back there, sitting nervously beneath a painting of Our Lady waiting to see the deputy head.

Get a life.. and some real friends

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:52:00 +0100

Who needs 300 friends?

Still starstruck

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:16:00 +0000

One of the nicest - and often most surreal - things about my job is that I get to interview people I’ve long admired.

A pernicious affliction

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:10:00 +0000

Fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett says he would rather have cancer than have his "living self stripped away by Alzheimer’s."

The thorny topic of the English rose look

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:52:00 +0000

I never thought I'd be inspired by a member of Girls Aloud, but it seems to have happened.