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I was probably under 10 years old when my grandparents first took me to Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast. I expected sand, and got shingle. I expected plastic buckets, spades, […]

The Natterjack. The Newt. You might well say that natterjacks and newts are forms of reptile found in the UK and elsewhere, and you would be correct. However, Wendy and […]

I see trees of green Red roses too, I see them bloom For me and you, And I say to myself, What a wonderful world.   I see skies of […]

Have you ever caught a burglar, and if you have, what did you do with him? Oops, it’s all equality today, so I must write, ‘What did you do with […]

  “Hey, look at his handwriting”, said a lady, peering over my shoulder. It’s so small and neat, and it’s in straight lines”. Wendy and I were at the annual […]

Almost every year, there has been barley in the field opposite our home. But times change, and occasionally there has been rape, or potatoes – or even weeds, when farmers […]

  Wendy and I love Dovedale, and have been walking the dales there all our married life. It’s rather different from our home county of Norfolk, where there are attractive […]

I had no real problem with those who had cleaned my home and surgeries over the years, but at one point, there seemed to be no one available. My house […]

What a wonderful, beautiful message from a lady in Iran a month or so ago. She is a dentist who was given a copy of the Farsi translation of one […]

It was the first day of term at the primary school in the village of Wroxham. The form teacher for the year above our class had left at the end […]