I find myself once more sat at the PC wondering how best to keep in touch with distant friends accumulated over the years in a way that is more than just a scrawled signature on a card. (You’ve got that anyway!) So it’s back to the old newsletter to give you a flavour of what […]
For a while I have liked the saying “Every young person is just an older person waiting to happen”. Well, this year, a TV series featuring a number of men of a certain age grumbling about modern society made me wonder whether the older person in me is making an appearance. Very worryingly, I found […]
As someone once said, time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working. Life at Smithy Close has been running at a frenetic pace recently and there have been too few spare minutes grouped together to review the year, but I’ve done it […]
My main memory when looking back over the past year was during the summer months when for a few weeks our world was turned on end. It began at the start of the summer holidays when Laurie caught a sickness bug, which he kindly shared with everyone in the house. We were all better within […]