Bookshops are seductive. In my childhood I spent hours in libraries, but in adulthood found there was nothing like browsing the tables in a bookshop, sadly currently out of bounds in our Covid times. The excitement of discovering a cover that catches your eye by its colour,
Read moreIt was going to be hard for Santa. There was no snow. The street down below was all shiny. It looked like a mirror with the streetlights showing another version of themselves kind of bent down flat on the ice. Perhaps the road would be slippery enough
Read moreIn our current difficult times it is easy to think we are hard done by – restricted in where we can go, who we can meet, anxious anything we touch might infect us with ‘Covid.’ But there are blessings. We may not be able to cuddle our
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