Foster kids have a superpower, we’re mostly invisible! Not always, because you notice if we break things or spill, but when we’re ‘being good’ you talk as though we’re not there. We know so much more than you think, like you get paid £168.00 per week, per kid to foster us. This money is your…
Message TO a bottle is more apt. You are starting your journey in Liverpool, one of the world’s great ports and a city of huge significance to this country. I too have travelled from here to far-away places with strange sounding names and to guide you on your journey I have included a satnav, programmed…
We had our village fete last week It was so fine to see The tents up on the village green For stalls, games, cakes, and tea. They had a pet show at the fete For pets of every kind Furred or feathered, finned or scaled, For each a place we’ll find. A certificate and a…
This is Radio Bedfordshire, and it’s nearly midnight. Time for the moment you’ve all been waiting for, when we announce our all-time Top Ten Dreamers, as chosen by you, the listeners. And coming in at Number Ten is – Mary Shelley. Back in 1815 she was looking for inspiration for a ghost story, and she…
This is the first chapter of Aynho Writer and Published Author, Philip Davies’s second novel in his Destiny series. At the bottom of the extract is an open invitation to the launch of the book at Blackwell’s in Oxford. “Destiny’s Revenge”, by Philip S Davies. CHAPTER ONE: BALL Ugh. Dancing. Katelin could think of many…
My Grandmother was born in British Honduras in 1858. Her father was a young Scottish lawyer attached to the Supreme Court in Belize and her mother the daughter of an English couple who had arrived to take up a government appointment and then made the colony their home Granny’s life was to be very unusual…
There is a proverb which says, “The one who drinks the water of Africa will one day return”. So, did you drink the water of Africa? The water of Africa will feed your memories and fuel your dreams. Do you remember how you stood in the warm dusk and watched the clutching thorn trees stretch…
There is space on everyone’s bookshelves for books one has outgrown but can’t throw away. They hold your youth between their pages, like flowers pressed on a summer’s day. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space allocated so I’m in the process of thinning-out my library; not an easy task for a booklover.…
“Good morning, Master. I trust our punctuality has not unnerved you.” Suddenly they were there: Rawdon’s voice, disingenuous as ever, and George, with his seafaring second. A young lad from the grounds at Nankilly accompanied Rawdon. “Thank you for your concern, Rawdon. I assure you I am fully prepared to defend my honour.” Richard dismounted…
(Photograph by Jim Muller) For me, you were never just the African girl on the train. From the moment I first saw you I sensed that you would become significant in my life. But I never dreamed of the consequences which would follow that chance encounter. I shall always remember that moment when I first…