Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

YOU DON’T REALISE HOW important your dignity is until you suddenly lose it. Falling and breaking a hip is clearly a tragedy but tripping on a paving slab and doing that sudden monkey-spasm-trip-walk-thing is rich street comedy.  During your trip everyone within a...
Going Places

Going Places

Picture an ancient city. Buried deep in a steep-sided canyon. Surrounded by mountains and endless desert. Canyon walls painted in swirling yellows and oranges and vivid rose-reds.The city old and weathered but still stunningly beautiful. And the name of that city:...
Back Chat

Back Chat

MY WIFE BROKE HER ARM a while back. Tripped on some foreign steps, and went down like a sack of spuds. Ouch! She’s all mended now, thank goodness. But she told me later that, centuries ago, when she was still at school, she used to envy kids who broke an arm or a...