By ANNA SMITH FLOODS, hailstones the size of peas and constant darkness. All that's missing is a plague epidemic. Well, I'm out of it tomorrow and heading for the sun, sea and anything else that's on offer for my education in Crete. Watch this space. (c) 2007 Sunday Mirror; London.

By ANNA SMITH I WOULD be all for this plan to uplift your holiday luggage from home and take it to the airport, if I had any confidence it would ever arrive at my destination.

By ANNA SMITH HERE is a little scene I witnessed at the entrance to a hospital the other day when a cancer patient on a wheelchair, puffing his roll-up, was joined by two women in wheelchairs and dressing gowns, taking in the morning sunshine.

By ANNA SMITH RAISING the school age to six is totally crazy in my book. Seven is even crazier. If we leave kids until they are seven to start formal education most of them will be so brain dead from watching videos and playing computer games, they won't be capable of taking anything in.

By ANNA SMITH MARGARET Beckett can bang her heels on the floor all she likes about US airplanes carrying bombs to Israel to pound [ the Lebanon refuelling at Prestwick ' Airport. But it won't matter a damn.