An Unexpected Christmas
One Christmas Day ‘Crowded with event” as Lady Bracknell would say.
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Harriet and the Twelve Bears
I haven’t written anything lately, but as I was spring cleaning my old files I came across this story, which must be I think, the very first one I ever tried to write. So here it is, warts and all, in the hope that it will get me going again.
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Being a crabby old bat myself, I am rather annoyed by the TV ads with deliriously happy older people (they are actors by the way) who have found romance through some dating agency. I am more of Tina Turner’s opinion! Here are sketches of three different loves.
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The Cook
The imagined life of someone totally dedicated to something I really don’t understand.
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The Long Shadow
Thinking about how the shadow of an evil time can travel down through the generations. The historic facts are true, this family story is imagined.
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A Little More on the Hebrides
A few people have asked for more about our move to the Outer Hebrides from London Fifty years ago., so here are some rather random fragments of memory.
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The Electric Chair
Perhaps not the most welcome present for your sixtieth birthday!
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A Secret
This story is based on something which happened over a hundred years ago in the village where I was born.
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Diary of a Shipwreck
A diary for the year 1926, damp and rotting at the edges found on the uninhabited island of Moto-Uo. The owner was Lady Fiona Ffolkstone – Fitch, who disappeared from a yacht in the Pacific with her family, crew and servants in that year. Many pages are too firmly stuck together to read, but the part relating to what happened to some of the yacht’s occupants can still be deciphered.
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