Bonfire night & Guy Fawkes As a child, so many of us loved this time of year. There was the fun of dunking our heads in a bowl of water, to catch floating apples, on the evening before All Saints (All Hallows). Better – and sweeter – still, was the practice of tying an…
Category: Childhood
16 VI 1928 – and other Skeletons in the Closet
Like something from a Romeo and Juliette tale, of star-crossed lovers, ‘the end’ was just so tragic, all round.
“It’s going to be a bright, bright sun-shiny day”
What a start to the Bank Holiday sunshine: jumping off the bus the other evening, listening to ChérieFM, the French “pop love music” station, via Bluetooth headset, when my face totally lit up as I heard Johnny Nash singing “I can see clearly now the rain has gone” (1972). I was 15 back then. The early May…