I’D just started work as a nurse and it was my first time living on my own. I managed to rent a tiny flat in Finchley. It came with a window box, a stray cat that hung around mewing for food, plus a n

YOU’RE only going for one night, Andrea. It looks as though you’ve packed for a fortnight’s holiday!” Mum just didn’t understand. I was spending the night at my friend Gillian’s house, and I had big p

Three women tell us about the extra-special relationships they’ve been lucky to have

Thirty years on, my illicit Sunday binge of Our Friends in the North lingers like a dream

A VISIT to the local coffee shop following their Pilates class had become a welcome routine for the three retired friends. One morning Lyn ordered her favourite flat white, insisting she wanted nothin

I have always had a fondness for Lincolnshire. It started when I worked at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln. I was on tour with a play in the late 70s, and at the end of the week was interviewed by the lo