50 not out — why I’m perfectly happy about getting older
Today – 29 January – is my birthday. My 50th birthday. Fifty. The big five oh....
Today – 29 January – is my birthday. My 50th birthday. Fifty. The big five oh....
This cross stands on a hillside in rural France. I walked past it late one...
I may lose friends. I may attract abuse. But this is one of those moments...
Today would have been my mother’s 90th birthday. It’s also the 17th anniversary of her death. (updated...
The view from my childhood bedroom window is still there. A tower block, an open...
On this day last year I visited a firework display in the grounds of a...
The Roman poet Horace said: “pale death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and...
When I was a young man death was my living. Determined, as I was back...
For most of us there are particular points in life that seem to mark the...
Life is a journey. The detours it takes you on are many and varied, and...