This Ole House

For my siblings. Fifty years ago our family moved house. The council-owned one we lived in was due to be renovated and the work couldn’t be done while we were in it, so we had no choice. Mum and Dad weren’t unhappy about the move, having been ‘on the list’ for a larger house for […]

Passing The Brush

We’ve just finished painting four rooms in our house. On the basis that two of them were the laundry that runs into the hallway leading to the bedroom (the third room) some may quibble with the figure but, whichever way you count, by the time we’d finished it felt like four hundred rooms.   I […]

Lost and Found

This is a photo Neil sent me this morning. The subject may look like ordinary sunglasses (although, being designed for cycling, they’re not glass at all but plastic, quite bendy and fairly indestructible – let’s face it, a good idea for me) but these glasses have a story. I bought them in France a couple […]