Felt glad for not having cat with meow like that. Went outside. Was one of my cats, meowing like that. 1 March 2008 The Bear ate the last tin of his special Applaws cat food today. He meeooped all the way through it, as if to confirm just how mandatory it is that I reorder some of it at the earli...
During my final period living in the north-east Midlands with my parents, ours was a man called Frank. Lank of hair and economical of conversation, Frank lived next door and worked as a farmhand a mile or so up the road, but I remember thinking that, despite a certain ageless quality, he seemed a...
People born in the seventies – or ‘Generation X’, as we’re sometimes called, when it’s convenient – have neither the massive strength in numbers nor the cultural explosion of the baby boomers to define them. Nor do we have the ‘in your face’ element of Generation Y. Yet what comes after Generatio...