My grandparents got married in 1938. I wasn’t born until 1964, but nevertheless as they brought me up I absorbed this story from them, of the summer before the war. 1939, of course. The war began in September. Everyone had…

A few years ago there was an ad for a credit card, in which someone struggles through various difficulties which were ennumerated financially (flight from Heathrow to Inverness, $500, Taxi to wherever, $70) to get home, where, when he was…

My aunt let me know yesterday that my cousin John Edwards has died. This isn’t terribly unusual, she’s the one who always lets me know people have died. I was sad but not shocked, the way he lived he wasn’t…

I hurt my arm. I fell over and landed badly, bruising my elbow and I must have really jarred my whole arm because my shoulder really hurts. Tiger Balm helped, and a hot bath helped, and sitting with a hot…