Lost in Words

In 2022, I wrote a book called Son of My Father. I remember the moment the title came to me. I was pacing around my home, thinking — search...

When I began writing Son of My Father , I realised how much of my dad’s story I never really knew. So much of who he was existed quietly in ...

An extract from my memoir, Son of My Father.       A very different time. My Brother wrote the service for mam's funeral. He wrote the...

  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...

The big box in the corner. That’s what our first televsion was called. It's the early 1960s, and I have a memory of a rather big box tha...

        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...

As I have been thinking about changing the cover of my book, I asked ChatGPT to come up with something that was more upbeat and colourful th...

The memories of a sixties' child.  Everyone has a story to tell. Here's mine in twenty chapter headings.  Chapter One — Just a Sma...

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...

                                               Until recently, I was not aware that Tipp-Ex, the correction fluid , was still available. I h...

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...

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...

So, I'm now playing catch up. Having been under the weather for a while, there are a number of posts to catch up on, including several b...

I finished reading Cheryl Strayed's book Wild a few weeks back and have been meaning to write about it, a review. As often happens, oth...

Last Friday, I got another five for a pound haul of books from the charity shop that keeps on giving. Let's see what I got this time. Al...

I made another visit to a local charity shop that regularly runs five books for a pound sale.  This is what I bought this time. 1) Pause by...

The first thing to say about this book is that you do not need to like fishing or be interested in the sport of fishing to read it.  As you ...