Who remembers those long ago science classes and the dogma ‘Every action has an equal and different reaction’? Today we have proof of that statement big time! The Covid Pandemic and government efforts to control it have changed our 2019 world completely and, in the process, rocked, even derailed many public and private projects and […]

Our current shut down etc. is but a temporary solution for controlling the speed of new infections sufficiently to allow the Health Systems to cope with the pandemic.  At the same time, a small amount of ‘herd’ immunity is being built up although, until testing for antibodies is more widespread, we will not know what […]

Every generation in its turn experiences catastrophic events which irrevocably change the world as we know it for ever. Today it is the efforts to contain the spread of a new virus that has caused everything we consider ‘normal’ to be disappear!  The world we knew in 2019 will be transformed beyond belief over the […]

Sometimes stuff just happens! Alas hindsight provides us with wonderful reasons why something happened but by then it is too late to mend our ways or be prepared for our fate! To quote my own mother, ‘Man proposes, the Good Lord disposes!’ However, perhaps my story may alert some amongst my readers to warning signs […]

For centuries we women have taken our husband’s surname on marriage.  We really had no choice! In fact, until the late 19th century, we technically ceased to exist as a person and became our husband’s ‘chattel’!  Admittedly there were rare exceptions where a family name and /or ancestral estates made it advantageous for the husband […]

After I published ‘Homer Damson Blossom Sunday’ I received several questions regarding who used all those Damsons and I realised how very different our world was in the 1940’s in Britain, compared with the world we live in now. Back then everything was used and “Waste not, want not, pick it up and eat it” […]

Above-The 12th Century Infirmary  at Wenlock Abbey circa 1950 Today, as I watched Notre Dame cathedral in Paris burn, I realised that my assumptions about the burning of Much Wenlock Priory and other Abbeys in Britain at the time of the reformation were obviously completely wrong!  If the Priory Church been torched to bring down […]