Christine Mackinnon

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Saturday, June 20, 2009

THERE I was, typing away about how swine flu hadn't made it to Sevenoaks, when I got the news that it had.

Mnnvvrmmmg? Sorry, forgot to take my face mask off.

As I was saying, are you as surprised as me that it's taken this long?

It's amazing we haven't...

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Keep off my chocolate, squirrels of Sevenoaks

Sunday, June 07, 2009

SQUIRRELS. Squirrels. Squirrels. It's getting ridiculous. I'd say it was driving me nuts, but they'd only snigger – those small scabrous...

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Where's this invasion of taxis coming from?

Saturday, May 23, 2009

THE TAXIS are breeding. There's no other explanation. Feral cabs are creeping into the bushes and coming out with coy smiles and a litter of minicabs....

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Turn on, tune in, but no signal in Sevenoaks

Friday, May 15, 2009

SEVENOAKS: I think I speak for all of us when I say that it's a poor show. In every sense of the word. Why are they taking their time to turn us...

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12 ways of knowing it's spring in Sevenoaks

Saturday, May 09, 2009

1. You persuade your visitors to tramp three miles to Knole. Halfway there, you realise you have no idea whether the house is open yet for the season....

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Who could resist the freight hub hotel?

Saturday, April 25, 2009

THERE is something about development proposals that brings out the cynic in me. I was intrigued to read about the freight hub (Chronicle, April 9)...

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So many you can't count them on your fingers

Sunday, April 19, 2009

IF I call it a growth industry, you'll groan. But it's certainly flourishing and, what's more, it's started to flourish in Sevenoaks. In fact, if...

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Pilots vie with Formula One for noise space

Saturday, April 11, 2009

FFFFFWWWWWAAAAAAOOOOOO IIIINNNNNNGG! PRRREEEE EUUUUUUUU OOOOOIIII! Crump. Yes, Formula 1 is back. Yippee! For the next few months, weekends will be...

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Time to polish up our Zen for the traffic jams

Saturday, April 04, 2009

DAZED and confused – that's how we'll be on the roads this spring. We knew there were going to be roadworks, of course – it's Sevenoaks,...

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Talk to the trees before they fall on our heads

Saturday, March 28, 2009

DRIVING back from Tunbridge Wells with a friend, we were startled to be slung off Seal Hollow Road, and kept off it, by police tape at every junction....

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