After the show
I’m back from Bonnie Scotland where the heather grows. That’s the start of a song lyric, I just have to find the rest. I went up for the village flower show. The hot weather earlier […]
I’m back from Bonnie Scotland where the heather grows. That’s the start of a song lyric, I just have to find the rest. I went up for the village flower show. The hot weather earlier […]
Visit ti village flower show
Cooking for One, shortbread, mixers, – I wrote Welcome to Oakhaven to entertain my wife. Unfortunately, she died three years ago and before she taught me to cook. Which means I have had to learn […]
A friend of mine was feeling the need of a restorative but had his mother-in-law staying so didn’t want to have anything she might criticise and went into one of the new coffee shops. He […]
How not to treat sunburn
I wrote The Spirit of Skiing for my wife, who did not have the wonderful experience the adverts suggest skiing to be. It is one of the short stories in Bees in My Bonnet, which […]
Short story, Flower show, Best in Show, Chrysanthemums, Begonias, When McGuire is ill, O’Hara takes over the delivery of manure. Despite the lorry running away, the manure gets delivered, just not as planned.
Yachts, Book Covers and mysteries – I sometimes wonder if I do things the wrong way round and I should take a book cover and write the story about that instead of finding a cover […]
Miss Kirkwood and John Brown save
Cairndhu village flower show
Cecil Rhodes and Military History – I was in the village of Pniel in the Dwars River Valley outside Cape Town, from which grew the two stories, King or Kaiser and Shadows in the Veldt, […]