August 5, 2018
Kes, one of my sister’s rescue lurchers, doesn’t play like the other dogs. It’s impossible to know what she went through in her early life but you can watch her on the sidelines, wanting to join in with the others, wagging her tail, but something holds her back. It’s like she just doesn’t know how […]
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July 30, 2018
Walking through the woods the dogs are running in the undergrowth looking for the unripe apple falls and chasing squirrels. While we wait for them to emerge my eye is drawn to a broken tree stump and a small grey stone which somebody has placed on top with the words “You Matter” and a pink […]
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July 27, 2018
The only holiday I can remember with my mother and father was to North Wales where it rained a lot and we had tinned grapefruit for breakfast. In other years Mostly holidays meant either staying on the farm where my aunt lived or going away to scout camp on my own. Both of which I […]
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July 22, 2018
When I was thirteen my parents were told by my teachers that I wasn’t smart enough for grammar school and that I’d be better off staying where I was, “a big fish in a small pond”. Only years later, long after I had completed three further years of academically lethargic schooling did it occur to […]
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July 8, 2018
Riding on the euphoria of a suddenly revitalised England football team the nation is gripped in a sun-drenched period of celebratory fervour. It doesn’t matter that nothing has been won, because something has changed. In some ways, it is the very fact that we have not reached the end of the journey, wherever that may […]
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