As I opened the curtains to let in the early morning light, peripheral vision registered the re-occurrence of Great-Grandfather Edward’s spider web. Attached to the right hand side of his portrait frame, it stretches towards the window. Every few days I remove...
So I met Jean-Paul in the hardware store, looking his usual cheerful, chubby self so, like a fool, I ventured to ask if he was pleased with the gentle rain that has fallen since the frost. Never, ever ask a country man if he is happy with the present weather. The...
As promised, the full moon of January 9th introduced a change in the weather. Out went the wet, damp and stormy, in came the bright, clear cold which, despite the random early morning or late evening patch of fog, is still with us. We are all deeply grateful, not...
The romantic convention will have it that absence makes the heart grow fonder of the missing person – or, for the sour minded, of someone else someone present. It has been suggested that the first writer to coin this phrase was one T H Bayly, a nineteenth century... 