by VT | Dec 4, 2020 | General interest, people
This is the word that immediately springs to mind to describe Joe Biden, the next president of the USA. Worthy. Should I feel a tinge of guilt as well as relief? I should perhaps be more enthusiastic. Well, there is the question of age, and the irritating sequence of... by VT | Oct 23, 2020 | General interest
The consolation of an autumn prelude to winter is the return to a poem I can never forget since I chanced upon it as a teenager. ‘Season of mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the retiring sun…’ Keats, so young, so unaware that his life would be tragically... by VT | Sep 23, 2020 | 1950s, childhood, General interest, people, travel
The autumn equinox approaches the northern hemisphere with turbulence heralding winter. Now, as when I was a student returning from a summer to practise my tenuous knowledge of French, or Spanish or Italian, the travellers might still crowd the decks of cross-channel... by VT | Sep 17, 2020 | 1950s, childhood, General interest, horse riding
High up on my list of pleasurable experiences is one involving drizzle or light rain. An ideal bedroom is one right under the roof so one might have the lullaby of the patter of rain on the roof tiles or slates. It provides the thin curtain outside the window as I... by VT | Sep 4, 2020 | General interest, travel
Four days after I left hospital, I was walking along a hilltop in North Yorkshire in search of the last of the purple carpet of heather before it fades into autumn which has now officially begun. It was strangely silent without a living soul in sight. I expected to...
by VT | Aug 5, 2020 | General interest, people, travel
Disturbing statistics show that more members of minority ethnic groups, or BAME, are dying of Covid-19. As my hospital experiences showed, this is hardly surprising, as so many of them are carrying out the essential frontline duties caring for patients in hospitals...
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