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When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

My father died in the first week of January this year, 2025. We both shared a love of Fortean Times for over 30 years, and he had once been published in your letters page. I would like to recount an o

When Natalia Millman lost her dad, she didn’t know how to deal with her grief, but everything changed when she decided to put pen to paper...

So much went unspoken in her past – so much love never expressed

WINDINGS NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE ...

Mothers are the most familiar strangers in our lives, says novelist Abigail Bergstrom. We grow up believing we know them inside out, and, yet, how much of them do we truly see?