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About two years ago, I bought my daughter Kathy a Betty Boop Rose for her birthday. As she adored roses and loves Betty Boop, it was the perfect present.
We planted it in the back garden of the house we lived in then, and waited hopefully for her to bloom. Alas, she did not. She didn’t [...]
Young people keep telling us that baby boomers are a selfish lot who always want their own way and think the world revolves around them. What rot! The world is not designed around baby boomers at all.
If it were, mobile phones would have 27 inch TV screens and typewriter keyboards so we could see [...]
I love reading old household management books and my favourite is Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. I had to share this lovely recipe for restoring whiteness to scorched linen.
INGREDIENTS.–1/2 pint of vinegar, 2 oz. of fuller’s-earth, 1 oz.
of dried fowls’ dung, 1/2 oz. of soap, the juice of 2 large onions.
Boil all these ingredients [...]
It can’t be true - it seems almost unbelieveable that such vandalism could take place. But the Hill of Tara, the seat of Ancient Kings in Eire, is under threat from a motorway which will be built right across the top of this ancient site.
You don’t have to be Irish to be outraged. Tara may [...]
That song by Meatloaf often haunts me these days. My mother is 80, and it is obvious that now it is the memories of long ago that seem closer than they are, than the most recent. She remembers her childhood and youth very clearly, but has to be constantly reminded of things that happened just [...]
It’s sobering to read the latest news on global warming. I subscribe to the National Geographic newsletter and have been avidly following the discovery of a dinosaur that makes the T-Rex look like a pussy cat as well as the `Judas Scrolls’ but it is the articles on global warming that claim most of my [...]
Today I bought a punnet of blackberries for $3 – therewas barely a couple of handfuls, but at the prices growers have been charging recently, they were a bargain.
In terms of memories, they were priceless.
One look at the shining fruit, like clusters of tinyblack pearls, and I was back in England, a child again, setting [...]
The writer’s life is, as we all know, one of ups and downs. But sometimes the up and the down come at the one time. I received an email recently from a well known anthology series – one of my stories is being considered for inclusion in one of their books.
Great news? I thought so, [...]
I believe American writers have a steady date with Starbucks - we have one on the Gold Coast but it’s too small for any serious pencil chewing, so I just head to my local shopping centre, order a cappuchino and a very good ham and avocado sandwich and just hang out for a while, watching [...]
She was the child of Leto and Zeus - because of Hera’s jealousy her twin brother brother Apollo was a difficult delivery. Artemis, born first, assisted her brother’s birth, which took nine days and nine nights.
Not surprisingly, when Zeus offered her a reward for saving her mother’s life, Artemis chose eternal chastity. Watching your mother [...]
