How wonderful Billie is. How breathy and directly emotional is her recorded voice, but also she's actually better live.  Billie sings about suicide in her single Everything I Wanted, or rather a nightmare she had, in which she committed suicide by jumping off the Golden … Continue reading Audacity 7 – Billie Eilish and Me

For a number of years, I had a recurring nightmare.  I would be returning home, walking down the garden path leading to the back door. As I put the key in to unlock the glass door, I’d see a figure standing motionless in the kitchen … Continue reading Us

I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish … Continue reading A Christmas Carol BBC -22nd, 23rd, 24th December 2019

The husband and I visited Butser Ancient Farm during half-term week. We forgot it was half-term or we may have delayed our visit but, on the day we visited, the farm was practically empty, save for a few sets of parents accompanied by one or … Continue reading We Encounter Madness in the South Downs

A Halloween tale, a day late due to busyness. ***** The young woman had been job hunting for a month.  Job hunting was expected of her, that much she knew.  You didn’t finish two degrees and then sit around wishing you could take early retirement, … Continue reading Nobody Ever Leaves Here

I’ve just come back from a week in the Lake District. My first holiday in the Lakes - hopefully not the last. The Lake District. Once home to Wordsworth; poncing about in the daffodils, declaiming nuggets of poetic wisdom, his sister meekly trailing up the … Continue reading Of Mice and (Wo)Men

I sang with choir no.1 last Saturday, in our local, very small library.  This was our second performance at this prestigious venue. The last time we sang there, we attracted an audience of six, and one of those had been the husband, who I’d press … Continue reading The Library, the Flash Mob and a Heatwave