Visiting a friend’s church we sat down for coffee after the service with ladies from the Commonwealth. Soon we discovered that two of them, midwives, had come to Britain in 1961, from Trinidad. I had visited a college friend in Trinidad and we were off – such friendliness. Half way across the island on my […]
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Families – Society’s Building Blocks Yesterday my wife and I spent the day with our own family and watched our grandchildren playing with their cousins, just as we did years ago, and still our cousins are our good and trusted friends. As a teacher I had to watch and help boys whose families had broken
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Grievous Bodily Harm – a short story A rapist is disabled by women who were left to to defend themselves. There was a large crowd of women outside the court, blocking the road as they held up their banners, many of which simply proclaimed, “Send him back to jail.” Earlier in the day a queue
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The Sussexes with their Harry and Meghan saga may have bored some people stiff of late but their American hosts should beware. It could well be that the whole silly story was got up as a distraction by King Charles and his family. Once Meghan’s ambition has driven one of her children into the White
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A former student of mine attended the University of St Andrews. One evening, cycling on the pavement without lights, she turned a corner and knocked over a young man. They both found themselves sprawled across the pavement. Before she could get up her victim had got to his feet and extended a hand. “Hi, I’m
After ten years in farming I trained, as a mature student, to teach English and continued my studies while I set out on a teaching career. From a headship in the maintained sector I moved, via the independent sector, to the world’s most expensive international school where I ran the English department and continued to
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Train Drivers – once popular Once upon a time this little girl would have had no trouble getting to her Granny’s Christmas party.
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Always cheerful, always helpful. Always turn up. What a service. Many thanks.
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On Saturday, August 27th, Janice Turner wrote in The Times of despair as burglary and car theft are all but ignored by local forces. The day before I had come across four police officers, talking amongst themselves outside a service station in west London. My attention had been drawn to them by the presence of some eight police
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Last week it was reported that car parking spaces are to be enlarged to take account of the growing size of cars and SUVs etc. No consideration seems to have been given to this further encouragement to build and drive even bigger cars, with all that will mean for urban road congestion, a reduction in the
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