When I was first taken to the Lake District I experienced something that I never had before: over the course of one week I became in awe of the rugged chutzpah of the landscape. It made me feel shy and timid in its presence. The deeply gorged fells, staggering peaks, variety of the settings for[…]
If you walked into a restaurant alone, and you were asked if you would prefer to sit at ‘the social table’ – with other people, strangers – would you choose it? A number of considerations might spring into your head in the nano-seconds before deciding YES or NO. For me, it would be about why[…]
Part 8: A drama every Saturday morning I’ve always been a writer……… As a trainee teacher in the midst of a chaotic classroom, I constantly caught myself sounding as if I was impersonating Joyce Grenfell. You know the sort of thing: “Brian take your pencil out of Linda’s ear. What was that? It’s stuck??” Or,[…]
We all get them don’t we? Even when you think that you have blocked calls from every number for every company that you never want to hear from again, they still reach you. Like me, do you answer because the caller is ‘unknown’ and the number looks like a normal mobile phone number? And then[…]