I Used To Have A Garden

I only ever owned one house.  One of the reasons I bought it was that it had an enormous garden. Not only enormous, but it was an end plot, and kind of triangular shaped, odd, giving it character and the sense of finding new corners as you walked through it.  The original owner of the [...]

Requiem for a Supermarket

When I arrived in the Canary Islands I was aware that I would probably get by with my smattering of Spanish  for a good while.  I had been ready for this adventure all of my life, I didn’t long for friends or green fields or a cup of PG Tips, I was thoroughly happy.  There [...]