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...

  Welcome to the modern age. The age of the short attention span. Was the last sentence too long? Maybe so, but it was shorter than this one...

  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 television was called. It's the early 1960s , and I have a memory of a rather big box t...

        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 Small Funeral. ...

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