Know your cod and plaice. Published in The Guardian.
If there are three things guaranteed to induce white noise between your ears, it’s anything to do with the EU, fishing quotas and maps of the…
Twenty winks. It’s never big or clever to cut back on sleep. Published in The Guardian
The last time the world cried as one, at the last American elections, I remember George Bush saying he wasn’t getting much sleep. This despite the…
Child’s play for adults. Published in The Guardian.
It’s debatable when I actually became an adult. According to various criteria it probably wasn’t until I left home at the rather late age of 22…
Amo, amas, I love a lass, published in The Guardian.
At last, it seems as if the cavalry is coming. For years, the subjunctive has been in hiding in the barren hills of What Once Was:…
It takes practice to be this imperfect. The Independent
I grew up with two mantras ringing in my ears. “Could do better”, which was on all my school reports, and “don’ta tella everyonea your biziness”,…
When breast is worst. Published in The Guardian
For 17 years I had been the owner of a fine pair of breasts that were, in Starbucks talk, grande. So when I became pregnant and…
A large scale disaster. Published in The Guardian
Fish are not photogenic; they will never be made into cuddly toys; they don’t try to be our friends like dolphins do. In a line-up, most…
In defence of the tie. Published in The Guardian
Last week a civil servant who works for Birmingham social services accused his bosses of sexual discrimination for asking him to wear a tie to work;…
Don’t make me laugh. Published in The Guardian
The 56th Edinburgh fringe festival is under way, ripe with thousands of comedy acts. At this very thought I tense. Comedy acts, along with anybody saying…
Socks appeal. Published by The Guardian.
What the weather will be like when you read this, I do not know. But if it’s hot, as they say it will be, then you…
Annalisa Barbieri 
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