Well I last wrote from my garden in April. So what is happening now and how have my suggestions worked out?  Our potatoes have provided an ongoing harvest, with each bucket yielding…

In days long gone, ordinary folk in need would throw a ha’penny into a well and make a wish.  The people would wish for simple things, like for their children…

I’ve been to some fancy parties, And even to an RAF officer’s Mess. But why everyone there seems to drink wine, I really can’t hazard a guess. Wine tastes to…

Twenty minute fiction. Ian Thompson passed the plate of sausage rolls to a suited man standing next to him and began to walk towards the dark haired woman in the…

Missguided go bust as fashion industry follows a misguided policy of exploiting staff, suppliers, customers and the planet instead of producing a sustainable product.

Ten Minute Fiction. Once upon a sometime in the early 1980s, there was a man named Phillip Allen aged forty-six.  He worked as a freelance sound engineer in some of…

We're all watching the price of food rise on a week to week basis, but hopefully the weather will improve enough to eat salad regularly. Here are some other growing…

Most people assume that getting a job is the way out of poverty. And, for many people it is. But figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveal that one in…

Unless you are personally affected by disability it can be hard to realise just what having a disability means. There are over 14 million people in the UK with a…

As the Chancellor jets off to California with his wife millions of families throughout the UK are facing the misery he has imposed on all of us.