2.45pm. Wave within wave of notes ripple across the afternoon roofs, spreading jubilation. Eight bells, some four hundred years old, each...

There’s no better start to the morning than a fresh little face beaming at you with the enthusiasm a three year old has for life. Big...

It was the ring in her voice. Soft, rounded, deeply comforting, with an alto bell in the background. You can tell a lot from a voice, it...

She sat in a circle of other women, sewing as they mostly knitted, as they all chatted in a flow of ideas ranging from the personal to...

Were you as upset as I was when you heard the applause following David Attenborough’s plea at the Climate Change talks yesterday? Weak,...

She looked worried as she exclaimed, "They had to close the pub last night due to Gypsies!" Warnings of a Gypsy wedding in a market town...

We adults are still the children within, changed, but still the being who was formed by life's initial struggles.Take this long-legged...

Finding this stone coffin in a local church, I couldn’t resist testing it out and as you can see, had I had medieval spurs on, it could...

In Britain we generally expect our friends to be there when things go wrong, to us this is the basis of friendship, that you not only...

Almost ten o’clock, in her nightie, propped up by pillows, my wife lost in a novel is sipping the biggest mug of tea imaginable. To her,...