Autobiography

Beginning

A young married couple struggle to get by on one wage. They are renting a one roomed wooden dwelling called The Retreat. A baby lies in the corner,...

Leggings - the makings of a Royal...

True christian forgiveness, and the makings of a Royal...

False happy

Feeling fine most of the time well enough to format a rhyme at least, but would this feeling cease if I stopped taking pills, I'm ill you see, felt...

Never Let the Saucepan Boil Dry Chapter Eight: Song of a Quenguin

I was, and remain, very grateful for many things in my life in Culloden: for my landlord, David, and for my parents, who live on the other side of...

Never Let the Saucepan Boil Dry Chapter 7: Speak Well, Mean Well, Do Well

The job I had hoped for did not materialise. 2004 began slowly as my academic victories that meant so much did not immediately lead to any kind of...

Anxiety of School Years

Dear Diary...the ability to fit in to what teachers and peers of society expected of me was very hard to achieve when I was young, but there was one...

Never Let the Saucepan Boil Dry Chapter 6: I Shall Arise, Part 2

Back in Aberdeen, May was supposed to bring an end to the taught Postgraduate Diploma phase of the course, but I needed more time, having become...

Never Let the Saucepan Boil Dry Chapter 6: I Shall Arise, Part 1

I am sorry now that I did not attend Dad’s induction in Cromarty. I found it difficult to accept the pace of change, and what had happened in the...
Cherry

Exactly What is Parkinson's, Anyway?

To mark the start of Parkinson's Awareness Week