Brian Walsh comes from Lancashire, but we won't hold that against him. To be honest I'm not a hundred per cent sure of his name. H...

In the time the 1970s tipped over into the 80s, my mother had a buttercup yellow Renault 5. It looked like this. She lived very frugally, fo...

I think of money, time  and energy as the three interchangeable resources we all rely on — but watching the video below made me realise ther...

  Most of the time these days I don't think very hard or very often about my space and my belongings — but that's because I now live...

This is the last of the Hawk & Dove books. We are growing old, Tony has Parkinsons, the future looks uncertain. I wanted to be sure the ...

  That quotation, "Problems arise when things accumulate", is from Toinette Lippe's book Nothing Left Over . It's about tw...

  I've been writing this blog for seventeen years. One of the earliest posts, about Quietness , was written in the April of 2009.  We ha...

  Jerusalema. Did you  love it as much as I did? The Covid lockdown had so much going on in it, so many vivid moments. I think we all came o...