These are all great gadgets that make life much easier. We should all have had them years ago. The only annoying thing about them is losing them or letting them fall. So don’t let that happen – tie them down. 2) Say getting old is challenging – never apologise about it. If you sit clamped in your...
He had been put in a really bad position and it was all her fault. She had practised over and over what she would say to him. She would ask him home to supper in Chestnut Street. Everything would be all right again. But she didn’t get a chance to speak to him. Every time she approached him there ...
He wouldn’t be cured, of course. You were never cured if you were an alcoholic. Four of them shrugged and thought that perhaps he wasn’t really an alcoholic – these things were so exaggerated nowadays. There was a time when a man took a drop too much, but now it was all endogynous, and in the gla...
Those advertisements for cruise holidays for mature people. You get this suave man in a dinner jacket, hair lightly streaked with gray, looking into the eyes of a woman with a pashmina stole around her slim, firm shoulders, to protect her against the night breezes as they stand on deck together. ...
She decided she would wait and judge the mood. Dee seemed thoughtful as they drove through the sleeping city. ‘Everything all right at home?’ Josie asked gently. ‘Grand, and yourself?’ ‘Oh, Harry had a gig cancelled. He was very annoyed, and took to real rot-gut wine to get himself over it.’ ‘Lia...
Tom Feather woke in Stoneyfield flats with a pain in his shoulders and a stiff neck… The armchair had not been at all comfortable. He got some cold orange juice from the fridge, and fixed a flower to the glass with some sticky tape. He marched straight into the bedroom. ‘H...
They gave handy hints such as not having heard them move around, or milk bottles piling up outside the door. Then you were to say to yourself: aha, there must be a dead person in there. The notion that in bedsitter-land you wouldn’t know who lived in the same house, or how frail they might be, wa...