Just in case you have not been following the BBC TV series “Strictly come dancing” this year, it includes a male, same-sex partnership. My late brother Pete was gay, and watching the programme I have wished frequently that it might have bewen possible to share the experience of watching it with him. It was never … Read more
This morning I called in to the South Square Centre to look at the latest exhibition in the Unit 9 Gallery.* The gallery is occasionally used as a venue for other events, and I had forgotten that a group of elderly ladies meet in there for their knitting circle. b (There is enormous competition for … Read more
There is an old story which tells of a village terrorised by a fierce lion. Children were warned never, ever to go up the mountain at the foot of which they lived. They were sure never to return alive. One day, however, a small boy, for some reason, ignored the advice of this elders and … Read more