Category Archives: Unreliable memories

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 →

The A levels finished forty-three years ago yesteday, on Friday, 15th June 1979. The passing of the days at Sixth Form College was marked by an evening playing skittles and drinking ale at a pub in the Somerset village of … Continue reading →