LITTER

The curse of our nation. Two million pieces a day, one billion pound a year to clear; a throw away generation, with a lack of respect.  From fag ends to plastic, dog poo to car tyres. Drink cans to barbeques, burgers to chips. Over countryside, seaside, mountains...

CAREERS ADVICE – 1950’s

Looking back at my school years, they were influenced by postwar austerity and division. I passed the 11+ selection examination for Grammar School education, all due to rote learning, no teaching aids, only the cane. Taught by elderly spinsters and ex-WW1veterans....

WAR AND CONFLICT

As I write this blog, there are major conflicts causing unspeakable death and injury, not only to members of the armed forces but to civilians trying to exist among the turmoil and carnage of war. Wars that have been started by leaders who want to expand their...

CHURCH MUSIC

I grew up in a relatively new coal mining village about four miles from the town of Wrexham in North East Wales (now a city). Early road maps identified the village as a ‘model village’. The mine owners developed the village with a series of wide avenues, a central...

THE SINS OF THE FATHERS

I decided to seek my DNA and find out where I come from.  Through family chats and some letters from my mother’s aunt who, at a young age, went to live in Australia on the advice of her doctor, I realise that elements of a true family tree will never be...