Autobiography
A sweeping saga remembered!

We were living in a tied-cottage (just a house really!) but it came with the job, and come the end of term, my husband brightly suggested he’d … where had the brush stuck?!
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Brave Face
Brave Face (19/02/2018) Belt up, enough’s enough, Got some lumps in your throat? That must be tough. Calm down, choke back the tears, Want the...
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Les Rowse, Philippe and I , final chapter.

Warning,the incident that makes me leave home is a bit sordid.
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Dear Mum
Christmas as the daughter of an Alcoholic
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Strength And Passion Of Women

Dear diary: In The Year Of The Woman, I needed to write this piece. By the beginning of 1988 I'd got to know many fantastic women who made such a big...
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Les Rowse, Philippe and I Part 2

‘We’ve given you all the advantages, all the advantages’ That’s not Les’ old man, it’s mine – his favourite war cry when the old girl cranked up his...
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The Anniversary(ies)
Six years today. On the one hand, unthinkable to be so long without you. On the other, seems like only yesterday, Yesterday, when a memory made me...
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Path of Bovine Mud

Lovely wide, quiet, green cultivated valley behind Wenlock Edge: bridle path runs alongside the cowshed – heads out, eating from the trough; soft mud...
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Undying Beauty
Half light signals first flush of dawn unable to move in hospital ward, perfect sunrise shines as canvas of color brings tears to my eyes, sweeping...
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