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Do you remember Herman’s Hermits from the ‘60s? I loved them, together with the Beatles, the Animals, the Monkees, the Searchers, and so many more. I could recite the top […]

Wendy and I have just returned from a few days in Wales. We had been walking in the Derbyshire dales for a week. That was my 28th time there. Some […]

Mevagissey is one of our favourite holiday destinations, where we stay in the Wheel House and gaze out of our window into the inner harbour. Fishing boats sail into the […]

“I walked as far as the flower shop that sells coffins, and then came back,” said my grandson, while we were staying recently. Some of us were rather bemused by […]

(The Introduction to the book ‘THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CONSTIPATED CAT!’) INTRODUCTION Just Coincidences? – Come On! Malcolm was a builder, but also a pilot. In fact, he had […]

A Chapter from my Book ‘PATIENTS FROM HEAVEN’ Mrs. Sparrow’s Beak My eldest daughter Sarah was learning to play the violin. Her music teacher was Mrs. Sparrow. My mother always […]

“Harlot! My daughter was reading one of your books, but she did not know the meaning of the word ‘harlot’, and I had to explain to her”. It was just […]

Taken from PENNIES FROM HEAVEN – HOW TO GET THEM AND WHAT TO DO WITH THEM by Barrie Lawrence. Available from amazon.co.uk (UK) and amazon.com (North America) Chapter 18 When […]

A Romance Restored. (Taken from ‘THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CONSTIPATED CAT – and Other True Stories of Answered Prayer.) It was towards the end of the 1990s when I […]

Thank you for buying my books! Well, some of you have, during the past 6 months, because I received my royalty cheque in the post yesterday. And some of you […]