For eighteen years September has always been an important month in our house. Firstly...
We’re surrounded by anxious parents all queuing in their cars to get onto the...
PART TWO …. In which Andy moves to the country, makes new friends, runs...
Work, work, work, a phase of life where taking a day off was an...
PROLOGUE This is the story of the life and adventures of Andrew Edward Silver....
The kettle started to boil in the kitchen as Mary Duggan rubbed her hair...
So here I am, just turned 60 and like so many of our friends...
No I am not trying a bit of DIY, although when push comes to...
Eleven years ago I retired from my work as a parish minister. The first...
A true account of life in Burma during World War II written by Bert Surridge,...
I’m not ancient, I’m not decrepit, I wasn’t drinking, and I do generally look...
There’s a note of exasperation in the journalist’s voice as he poses the question...
When I retired, I decided not to roll out the normal speech of thanks...
I spent an idyllic childhood brought up on a beautiful sugar estate on the...
Five years ago two friends and I set up a voluntary organisation called Keeping...
On sunny days an old lady makes her way across the golden bay to...
My mother’s mum and dad were Italian, a fact that I’d always taken for...
“For God’s sake, Michael, you’re obsessed with that idea.” Jane props-up her waif figure...
Enjoying the spring sunshine and peace in Cotehele National Trust’s beautiful gardens, I think...
Arabella blinked. This was hardly a miracle in itself, although I had sat opposite...
Retirement, oh joy, hits you like a brick, you have worked for years, you...
I can’t wait to chuck-in all this commuting. I’m seriously thinking of working from...
For 17 years I lived in fear of my life and that of my...
“WHEN I moved here 20 years ago, Lucca didn’t have tourists. Look at it...
I pluck up courage and dial the number. “Hello, Julie…” I hold the receiver...
It was a beautiful moonlit evening with the outgoing tide slopping against the hull...
“Mummy, there’s a fairy on the lake made of ice!” Billy’s high excited squeal...
1940 In East Africa being a First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps) (FANY) was...
Mark hurried to catch his bus that would take him to his college in...
For over 40 years I bred West Highland Terriers, one of the most lovable of breeds,...