Category Archives: Unreliable memories

My mother’s house is undergoing extensive renovations. Being eighty-find she thinks it is prudent to opt to have her bedroom downstairs, so the garage has been converted into a sitting room for her and her former sitting room is being … Continue reading →

‘Did you get Jackie mgazine?’ I asked a friend. ‘No. I was only allowed the annual.’ I  saw a 1976 copy of Jackie for sale online at £20 . It was not the girl who was pictured that caught the … Continue reading →

A weekend of laughter, the visit of two cousins from Cheltenham to join with local family members for a barbecue on Friday night and a music festival yeseterday. The Cheltenham cousins would have been among those who would have gathered … Continue reading →

The A levels finished forty-three years ago yesteday, on Friday, 15th June 1979. The passing of the days at Sixth Form College was marked by an evening playing skittles and drinking ale at a pub in the Somerset village of … Continue reading →

Last week, I found a photograph of an old friend in his room in the student hall of residence in which he lived forty years ago. On the shelf above his head was his alarm clock. It had an alarm … Continue reading →