Category Archives: Unreliable memories

A Christmas song is played in school each morning. There is a dull predictability about their pop music banality. The sequence of songs is to culminate with Mariah Carey. If that is the best Christmas song that can be imagined, … Continue reading →

A musician by conviction and a teacher by necessity, he is eclectic in his tastes and complimentary in an unexpected directions, including towards The Sweet. I had never met a serious music enthusiast who was enthusiastic about the music of the … Continue reading →

The half-time whistle was blown and the two teams walked from the pitch. Many of the spectators left the stand to go to the catering stalls. The fifteen minute break gave an opportunity for the junior teams to come onto … Continue reading →

At the end of the evening of 5th November, there was always a certain note of melancholy. In the morning, the bonfire that had burned brilliantly the night before would be no more than a pile of grey ashes.  If … Continue reading →

It is fifty-five years since I won the prize. 31st October 1966 was Punkie Night at Long Sutton Primary School, not that many of us would have had pumpkins with which to make Hallowe’en lanterns.  For most of us, it … Continue reading →