On reflection

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A f ter my great-aunt Monica’s funeral, I ...

A FEW months ago Margaret and I decided to revisit one of our old haunts, the Lake District. We spent our honeymoon there and we have returned a few times over the years. Happily, the hotel where we s

HELLO!” A young woman with red curly hair bounded up as Millicent and Barbara headed to the church, laden with fruit, flowers and foliage. Observing her brightly coloured sweater, hand-knitted chunky

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

Walking into the day room after her weekly Zoom call with her daughter in Canada, Hester was pleased to see Phyllis and Donald there. Good company, both. On the TV an anodyne politician was spouting t