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GOING IN CIRCLES from menhir 92 days old

We are a bereaved family now in the rush towards the final rituals, and then, I suppose, the next stage will be in the limbo land of grief. Around us, ...

STEWED from menhir 205 days old

It was too cold to wait outside the bank for hubby so I sat inside and people watched. He seemed outwardly sober yet there was enough borderline behaviour ...

STARS? WHAT STARS? from menhir 291 days old

You don't have to believe me, but yes, I really did walk into a sodding solid side of a door. In fact the blasted thing bounced off me, or more precisely, ...

HE WAS KILLED ON A SHIP from menhir 303 days old

"My great grandad was killed on a ship," she explained, "My gran told me about it years ago. She died last year. I wished I'd understood more." The ...

THANKS BUT NO THANKS from menhir 336 days old

Yesterday I was in a city. For some of the time I was in a shopping mall and for a little time, I was in the main street. I couldn't wait to get out ...

STAYING UNFRIZZLED. from menhir 359 days old

I'm off to get my locks beautified this morning. I shall wear a capacious hat before and probably after the event. The weather is absolutely foul and ...

SIKH PUPIL'S DISCRIMINATION CASE from menhir 467 days old

Twenty five years ago, young orthodox (Khalsa) Sikhs were riding around on their motorbikes and scooters wearing one of the five K's that distinguished ...

BLESSED DOUBLE-DECKER LONDON BUS from menhir 608 days old

I discovered that a 27 bus that stopped on the opposite side of the road to where I was waiting, went very near to where I wanted to go in North West ...

A TRUFFLE PIG SEEKS from menhir 776 days old

The 'serious' side of the BBC news programmes (radio 4) has managed to tread very successfully, very publicly, where it did not obviously tread before ...

A Little Corner of Student Life. from menhir 866 days old

Not so long ago, I was a hard working student, living the pressures and the stresses and strains of time limits, word limits, sweating out my thoughts ...