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…
Category: Friends
“Don’t you look at ME like that!!!”
On talking to Paul on the phone, yesterday, aka my boyfriend when we were both 17, we shared some stories about a young man we both knew. I think he was slightly older than us at the time, and he re-named himself “Nap”, short for Naparolla (Some Polari-speak lingo, not doubt). From what I recall,…
Have you heard the one about a nun, a priest and a clairvoyant?
“Do you believe in love at first sight, or shall I walk round and come back again?”
Do you speak Yugoslavian?
A very well-to-do woman came up to me and asked “Govorite li Jugoslavija?” … I replied “Ne govorim hrvatski”
The Rabbi and the bean bags
For my first degree, I read Theology at what was then called the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC or Cantaur). It is now simply ‘the University of Kent’, as it has a campus at Medway, shared with the Universities of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church, too. Formed in 1965, the University took the original…