Category Archives: Unreliable memories

Before six o’clock on an August morning and there is the sound of children’s voices coming down the road. Perhaps it is the warm weather prompting people to venture out early. With the windows open, the morning news is audible … Continue reading →

Sunday evening – once it would have seemed a moment of disappointment. Weekends in Somerset in my teenage years had a format.  It was a format that cannot have been prolonged or frequent, but which seemed to have a quality … Continue reading →

My mother’s house is undergoing extensive renovations. Being eighty-find she thinks it is prudent to opt to have her bedroom downstairs, so the garage has been converted into a sitting room for her and her former sitting room is being … Continue reading →

‘Did you get Jackie mgazine?’ I asked a friend. ‘No. I was only allowed the annual.’ I  saw a 1976 copy of Jackie for sale online at £20 . It was not the girl who was pictured that caught the … Continue reading →

A weekend of laughter, the visit of two cousins from Cheltenham to join with local family members for a barbecue on Friday night and a music festival yeseterday. The Cheltenham cousins would have been among those who would have gathered … Continue reading →