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En cas d’emergencie…
“Come on Tato, pleeeeeze! We’ll be late for the train.” I desperately tried to chivvy my utterly relaxed parent into something like activity as the time drew closer for my trip to France to start. I...
View ArticleFor all you North Britishers
At last. They have found the missing chapter from the Book of Genesis. Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six days. Eventually, Archangel Michael found him on the seventh...
View ArticleA labour of moles (a fairy story)
Once upon a time, in a land of green meadows and shady woods, a king and queen reigned who had everything their hearts desired, save one. Though they had many sons, and delighted in them, they had no...
View ArticleFor Marya, Jamie and all MyT friends
My dear friends and fellow sufferers of Mytitis!Thankyou SO much for your messags of good cheer on Marya’s lovely posting of Shelley and theglorious meadow pic. Surely a sight and sound to make the...
View ArticleOn being ill – a poem
The words that set me free were few and harsh: You’re dying. Nothing we can do can stop the march Of the disease that has your lungs in close embrace. Then the fetters of the past fell off at last And...
View ArticleFor Christa and all kind well-wishers
Thanks for your kind enquiries, Christa. To you and anyone else who’s wondering how things are, I can tell you I’m home and now have 24-hour care, so I’m pampered. I’m waiting for a special chair to...
View ArticleOut of e-paper?
I usually read the Telegraph on line in the full version on the e-paper. There was a link on the Telegraph home page half way down on the left, under ‘News services’. But it seems to have vanished...
View ArticleLost,, yet found
One for the NYDP challenge – intimate yet chaste Lost, yet found I heard your voice and then a tide of joy Washed over me and filled my heart with tears Tears for the words that never would be said “I...
View ArticleSincerity in art
I’m listening to Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass, from the Proms, at the moment (on ‘Listen again’). Incredibly, for me, I have learned that Janacek was a fervent God-hating atheist. Why would such a man...
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Hoarding
When does ‘stuff’ become ‘rubbish’? I have a terrible problem with hoarding. I find it hard to part with things that conjure up memories of happy times or old friends. I even find it hard to part with...
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