My year in books
This has been a good year for new books by long established authors, in fact, the publishing phenomenon was the second book by Harper Lee, To Set a Watchman which was the sequel to her To Kill a Mocki ...
LIFESTYLE
Charlotte’s People of the Year Award
I keep a close eye on the personalities who shape our cultural heritage and have sorted my favourite people of the year. The following may not be on the New Year’s Honours list, but I feel they ...
Old age Piccolo
A gran is the proud owner of the world’s oldest and most versatile household appliance – which makes dinner, hoovers, paints and even grinds coffee beans. Mary Waite, 63, and her husband I ...
On this week in history
Every week we go back to re-visit some of the significant happenings that took place in living memory; just about, for some of us. To remind ourselves of how life has changed and how some things stay ...