Things to do when you’re sick: Stay at home Get someone to buy you a Playstation 2 and bring it round Watch movies by foreign directors See how much water you can drink in a day Make furniture out of pieces of wood you find around the house – especially if generations of tennants have […]

Halloween, feeling ill. A kind of self-pitying ill, where you huddle under your duvet, and beg for chocolate from anyone passing. A movie seemed like a top idea, a way of hiding in the darkness of a lounge, whiling away the hours. Maybe a bit of food – some green vegetables for the vitamins and

Do you have a penthouse flat in London that you’re afraid to leave empty? Were you planning to go away, but can’t bear the idea that your rooftop swimming pool will be left idle? For a small fee, and the use of your bicycle, I can persuade an experienced house sitter to swim in your