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An unlikely prisoner
I recently read Sean Turnell’s An unlikely prisoner. If you are asking yourself, ‘Who is Sean Turnell?’, I wouldn’t be at all surprised. Most of our news items these days come and then disappear swiftly as a more enticing morsels (Tay … Continue reading →
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All the things I do not know
One of the irritating things about getting older is that you wake up one day and suddenly realise that there are all these important things about which you know absolutely nothing – and that, given the years are passing at … Continue reading →
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On denial
Getting old and watching ones’ contemporaries die one by one is a sobering time of life and we all deal with it in our own ways. Some fall back on denial and, like Dylan Thomas, ‘rage, rage against the dying … Continue reading →