Posts from the ‘NOW’ category

When Peter met Penny

It was 1969 and my Mother was still living in Toronto, Canada and working as an air hostess, but that summer, she decided to jet back…

This was the table I grew up with, this was the table we sat around as a happy and complete family. It was wooden, a light…

My Mum had recently reversed her car into Becky – our elderly Labrador – and she died on the spot. My soon to be ex stepfather…

Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary – writing about a moment in my morning. I am on my third kettle in 3 years. It’s the…

Believing the end of the world is nigh is deep in the thoughts of every generation: The Rolling stones busted out ‘Gimme Shelter’in the 60’s; Elvis…

A year ago today I gave up smoking. Finally. I was one of those vehementally anti smoker kids, mainly because I felt that smoking attributed…

There came a time in my life when I lost sight of what made me happy. People would say, do what makes you happy! Just have…

Normal. What is normal? What I see as normal maybe very different from what you see. For most of my life I never felt normal, but…

On my travels I often meet kindred spirits. It makes me a little sad that they will only ever remain in my memory. I arrived…

I felt shock, disbelief, sadness and anger as I stared at the TV in my Mumbai hotel room. I watched the Grenfell Tower as it burned…