Lost in Words

  1)  A cost of living crisis would happen every few years.  Money was tight, inflation was often high, and austerity was the norm for man...

  1) We would often have sugar sandwiches for tea, usually because we had run out of jam — or money to buy jam. White bread, margarine, an...

        Money was different when I was a boy. It really was different.  It actually changed when decimalisation was introduced in the UK on ...

When I was a young boy, my mother set me a challenge. It was during the long school holiday one year, and she was hoping to keep me busy and...

When I was a young lad, if ever I got a little too ambitious, my mother would say to me. “You need to come back down to earth.” Sometimes, w...

Do you have a happy place? A place you can go to where you feel better just by being there? I do. I found a happy place, and it was on my do...

When I was at school, there were two sporting events each year that I dreaded. The first was the annual school swimming festival. We were ex...

I decided to find five English proverbs that best describe the writing journey.                                             Free image by Qu...

It was about twenty years ago that I was offered the chance to meet an investment advisor at my local bank. The meeting would be about the...

I was on Twitter X the other day, when I came across a post about the comics that were a big part of life for children back in the 1970s. Th...

1) You ate sugar sandwiches, because jam was not available. 2) You had an aunt who would cut your hair. 3) The local library was the interne...

When I was a lad, I would wonder why Boxing Day was called Boxing Day?  No one in my family had an answer to it.  I came to what I thought w...

My first job, other than doing errands and helping out at home for pocket money, was a paper round. That's not me in the picture, but I ...