From Braco to Brittany

Heather Mum's final words to a member of her family were these "I wish....", spoken to her eldest daughter in August 2017. As far as I know she said no intelligible words to her eldest son when he came up in September 2017. She was by then under morphine...

Howdy folks! I'm so excited about being able to write to you! I've been practising my keyboard skills recently because I've realised that her Ladyship is not the best at giving you all the Most Important news so I realised I'd have to develop my own journal...

"Lightening" by Clinton Naik Edwina remembers sitting terrified in a primary school class while a head teacher brutally beat up a young 7 or 8 year old boy, one of her classmates, with a heavy strap. She was frozen to the soul's core. And the other children...

Her first role as actress was as an Angel, although she was anything but angelic! She loved being on stage but she hated having to look pretty! What she wanted to do was act, perform, learn lines, and put her whole body and soul into delivering them....

By Frances Hodgson Burnett (author) / M. B. Kirk? (illustrator) - Houghtonhttp:// Library at Harvard University, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37216694 "The Secret Garden" was one of my favourite children's books. I loved...

My Mum once told me that I was one of the easiest in our family to care for when I was ill because I just took to my bed and slept or read books. I certainly can't compare myself to any of my siblings - they will all have their own stories of childhood...

A cat's life My name is Phare Ouest, alias Far West, alias West Lighthouse Cat. Don't you think she should have chosen a simpler name for me? I mean, I keep having to tell everyone that no, I do not live in a lighthouse, I have never lived in a lighthouse,...

I remember when soldiers first entered Northern Ireland because we had been on holiday in England, visiting cousins, and came back to find checkposts and army trucks everywhere. This was Derry in 1969, and we were living in a beautiful old house a few...

The first question to be asked is "Where is Braco"? Here is a reply from the Great Web : Ardoch, near Braco, was in fact one of the largest Roman stations in Britain but now grass covered rampants and ditches are all that remains. And the title could...

MUFFIN THE BEACH DONKEY Going to St Andrews' Beach was always a highlight of the summer holidays in my young life. By this time we were settled at Sypsies Farmhouse, one mile out of Crail in Fife. As soon as we arrived at the beach, I made a bee line...