I started sending out these pieces of memoirs by beginning with the time I was in hospital in 2009, at a turning point in my life, having had to have life-saving surgery of the open heart. So I think it would be nice to draw some of the stories together, returning to...
Many years ago there was trouble in Heaven, see, and it was all on account of the Welshmen. In earlier times there were never that many Welshmen in Heaven. Most of the women got to Heaven, but very few of the men on account of all the fighting and drinking. That all...
In 1965, I was very happy to give up work and move to Taplow in Berkshire, as I was pregnant with my eagerly awaited first baby. My husband, Roger Tudway, had obtained a post-registration job in general medicine at the Red Cross Memorial Hospital there. I made no...
The Old Man in the garden says, “I made mistakes. What’s done can’t be undone. I’ll try again someday, but just now I’m tired and bored with them. Should I just squash the clay and start again?” The New Man says, “It’s...
This is a story I wrote in 2006 when I heard a radio report about the pardoning of the soldiers, mostly very young, unjustly shot for cowardice in the First World War. I sat in the twilight, crying because of the tragedy of the young lives lost – and the plot of this...
Let’s have a break from my early and sadder years for me to share with you an uplifting original fairy story from my book, ‘Tales From Turnaround Cottage.’ Once, there was an old woman who was very lonely. “Oh, if only I had a husband who I could...