Author Archives: Ian

The efficacy of nonsense

Posted on 18th March 2023 by Ian

Each summer, we would go to the Stade Dauger in Bayonne to watch Aviron Bayonnais, the local rugby club, play a match. Not once did we manage to find the way to the ground without getting lost. Each time we … Continue reading →

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Sixty years in a wig

Posted on 15th March 2023 by Ian

The photograph is my favourite from my childhood. It dates from perhaps the spring or summer of 1963. It is taken beside the corrugated iron door of the shed that was used as a garage for cars on the home … Continue reading →

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A special education teacher

Posted on 13th March 2023 by Ian

I applied today for a job at a school where it would be a dream to teach. To be applying for jobs at sixty-two years of age is a challenge. In my previous post, I was on a one year … Continue reading →

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Harvest past

Posted on 9th March 2023 by Ian

He is thirty-two years dead tomorrow. Many memories linger, a quiet man, a gentle man, a stoic, a grandfather loved by us all. A picture of him from 1975 captures a sense of him. Grandad stands on the left-hand side … Continue reading →

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Gym shoes

Posted on 6th March 2023 by Ian

The girl was wearing a pair of classic black and white basketball boots. The wearing of such incurred the displeasure of the deputy principal and she was required to phone home from the school office and ask that her mother … Continue reading →

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