This morning my younger daughter got a big surprise for her 25th birthday today – a 5.8 earthquake in Los Angeles. After we stood under a door frame (the old earthquake advice but possibly not the new earthquake advice), we both got on Twitter and tweeted the news.  read more »

When the room started spinning, my first thought was that I must be sicker than I thought. I'd been fighting a bug all day and had been having the odd dizzy spell. However, I had a deadline and was trying to meet it when things started moving. I sat very still in the hope that the dizzy spell would soon pass, but then I realised that I wasn't dizzy at all.  read more »