Category: Family

In recent years (the tropical chapter), the week before Christmas each year, my next door neighbour, Carol, would play festive tunes. Classics from a bygone era, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean...

I would like to wish all the readers of the website, a very Merry Christmas.  We have people browsing from such countries as Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany, France, Holland, Italy, Asia,...

Apologies, I have not been posting much in recent months. I have not been writing anything at all. But the creativity is still there, and I have been working in the evenings, on enhancing a lot of...

Several hours last Saturday were spent, rather than writing up a weekend post, brushing out the flood in my house.  I had turned on the bath and forgotten about it.  I stepped off the sofa, to...

Every once in a while, usually after a glass of red wine, I have a look at mum and dad's old photos.   They met in the late 1950s, in a hall over in Garvagh.  Although dad was ten years older,...

I came across an old poem (see below) entitled To the Old Year, written on December 27th, 1884, by Susie Troland, a Coleraine lady.  She was inspired by the year just ended, namely 1884. In...