Author Archives: Ian

Where would I go now?

Posted on 28th December 2022 by Ian

During the past week, I have spent more time sleeping than awake. Even when up and dressed, I have contrived to doze off whilst sitting in an armchair. Perhaps it has been the cocktail of medications, the usual tablets for … Continue reading →

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Boxing Night Past

Posted on 26th December 2022 by Ian

It is odd that it was 2016, six years gone in a blink.We had come to Somerset on an early morning flight to mark my father’s eightieth birthday. There was a meal at my sister’s house in Ilminster. The table … Continue reading →

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Solstice Day

Posted on 21st December 2022 by Ian

Postman Pat was a favourite in our house in the early 90s.  We would sit and read stories and watch videos of life in Greendale and when driving through Cumbria would tell imagined stories of the Greendale community living their … Continue reading →

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Fear induced by Glenn Miller?

Posted on 15th December 2022 by Ian

It was on this day in 1944 that the aircraft carrying the American bandleader Glenn Miller. It would have been three days before my late father’s eighth birthday, yet decades later he would talk about the music of Glenn Miller. … Continue reading →

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There’s no secret

Posted on 13th December 2022 by Ian

‘You hard-shelled materialists were all balanced on the very edge of belief — of belief in almost anything,’ says G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown in the 1924 tale The Miracle of Moon Crescent. Chesterton seems to have possesses an extraordinary prescience … Continue reading →

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