‘It’s always darkest before the dawn’ ~ Florence and the Machine As Florence quite beautifully sings, “…it’s hard to dance with the Devil on your back.” I have to say I agree, though that Devil sometimes shows up on your shoulder, whispering in your ear, as murmurs in your mind. You name it, that darned Devil can pop up all over the place, and sometimes … Continue reading Darkest before the Dawn
“…then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in”, bellowed the big bad wolf in the most ferocious, and gruffest of voices that he could muster. This, he did to the first, the second, and the third little pig. Such is the stuff and nonsense that fills children’s fairytales some may say, but not I and maybe not you either. Most of … Continue reading Storytime…
The British are a football crazy nation and football fever reaches new heights whenever there is a cup final on the horizon. Let’s face it Women’s football is gaining ground, in no small way!. The Woman’s final between England and Germany/France is coming to Wembley on Sunday 31st August 2022. No longer contented to restrict themselves to the more traditional sports associated with women, the ‘fairer sex’ … Continue reading Women have balls too…
They were just nameless souls on sepia, staring out seemingly into space: a peer into a time long since past and now, not often remembered with any degree of regularity. With its jagged edges it was evident that part of the photograph had been torn away, why is a mystery. Someone in the family, though I cannot recall who, had once mentioned that there had been … Continue reading Nameless Souls on Sepia
Hillcrest Road Mrs Haynes was as I recall a large old lady. How old I cannot say but at the age of five or six she appeared to me to be the oldest person in the world. She must have been of a great age as she remembered a time when the land surrounding Hillcrest Road had been farms and pasture land; green and grassy … Continue reading Hillcrest Road
Liola Lee 