Some images that might mean something to others who, like me, were children in small-town UK in the 1970s…
What pictures would you add?
Some images that might mean something to others who, like me, were children in small-town UK in the 1970s…
What pictures would you add?






























What a very colourful and splendid group we are… Marc took this excellent photo this afternoon. Oh, the fun we had deciding where it should be shot. We ended up outside the main door of the building.
As a child, I wasn’t much of a sportsman. Asthmatic, lacking in co-ordination, a bit scared of team games. But, in the last couple of years of secondary school, I did discover cross country running. And, when I was searching for a sport to do for my Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, I…
On the wall of my study hangs an old cutting from the Lichfield Mercury, dated 11 November 1988. The headline reads: “Breaking out!” The page is yellowed now, the photographs are grainy and the print has faded. But it remains one of the things on my wall that means the most to me. The article…
“When Cash in the Attic came on, I just had to stop everything.” “Is there is an Ikea in Bucharest?” “I do like Chinese food usually. It’s just that Frank doesn’t like stuff that’s too exotic.” “You just need trumpets.”
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.” I learned Robert Frost’s poem, ‘Stopping by woods on a snowy evening,’ for a declamation competition at school when I was ten years old. (I can’t remember if I won or…