M is someone I have known for most of my life. She is – by instinct – fair and level headed, but she is sometimes drawn from her instincts by watching ITV evening news. If Emmerdale followed Channel 4 news, we would have a whole different ballgame, but ITV news is the one that is watched, …
Travelling through the West Country on a Sunday at 5pm suddenly makes me wistful for the days when I used to hitch my way around the country.
When i was young enough for hitching to be a safe endeavor, because I had the indestructibility of youth.
Galileo spent most of his life in Florence – there is a museum dedicated to him in that beautiful city
Hard though it is to believe though, the displays Galileo’s middle finger.
I need to get some tomatoes from the market. All the best ones will be gone by the time he’s finished with me. And he’s not even painting it on a fresh canvas. God knows how much my idiot husband is paying for this, but it’s too much
like the corners of my mind … memories of the ‘sixties