The Solitary Walker

Beaurains Road War Cemetery near Arras. After the 19th December attack, we were back in the same trenches when Christmas Day came alo...

Our Weihnachtspyramid , bought in Siegen, Germany, 25 years ago.  1. A glass of sherry with a mince pie before Christmas dinner, and a...

One Christmas when I was very young I was delighted to find a big, hardback book of poems in my Christmas stocking. The book was called The...

The Weaver Of Grass recently entertained us with a description of the books she'd received as Christmas presents . These were the books ...

With apologies to Benjamin Zephaniah and Dominic Rivron ... Was your turkey a nice one this Christmas? Or was it on the bland side of de li...

While the New Year is a time for anticipation and looking forward, Christmas is a time for reflection and looking back. The future is by def...

I've been wondering what to write about in this, my 400th post. I see I began blogging one and a half years ago, on 23 June 2007. Perhap...

After an anxious and frustrating day - which began with my 90 year old father going into hospital and ended with Marks and Spencer running o...