It’s hard to know what day it is currently. Many of the routines that differentiated our Mondays from our Tuesdays,…
Schooling and Testing
This morning one of our current educational hunches was confirmed: all practical GCSE and A level examinations have been cancelled.…
Silver-Lining Blessing
This is a photograph of our family having dinner together one evening earlier this week. It was a happy occasion…
The Light shines in the darkness
This was a Christmas like no other in our family, for on Christmas Eve my much-loved maternal Grandmother, the ‘adopted’…
“More than a badger”
‘Tis the season of the end-of-semester deadline, of the darker morning, and the even darker evening. For some of us…
Coming to terms
Making my way through Oxford’s monumental streets, early on a crisp October day, as the sun is casting her good…
Réveillon in the Alps
Today I spent a New Year’s Eve like no other. This morning saw me make the ascent of a mountain…
July Joy
July is National Ice Cream Month (at least in the United States). For me, the arrival of July is the…
The Time of Our Lives
We watched the televised pictures intently as invited guests made their way across those familiar damp cobblestones, moving out of the…
On peace in our time … and that intriguing image.
I’d been following the conversations broadcast to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement as I was going…