For a while I knew how to make lace. Where did I learn that? Was it at school, from a French person, (une Dentellière, which naturally sounds like they use old teeth for pegs) or from one of the eccentric old ladies of Buckfastleigh I was always adopting? I dont know...
One of the 51 year old twins, who will forever be half of the “Starck girls” of my youth, gets on the bus and proceeds to tell everyone – loudly – the exact price of all of her shopping, what she bought for whom and why, and how she ran out of...
Nan 17 JULY, 2018 familyculture The loud snap of a top-fastening ‘fifties handbag transports me in an instant to a warm, smoky, packed room in Buckfastleigh Town Hall. I am at my Nan’s side, holding in my excitement by an extreme act of self-discipline for an 8 year...
