There is a huge void in my memory that stretches from the middle of last April until the end of July. Sometimes it feels as though I was dead during that time. I was, in fact, in a coma, lying for over a hundred days in an intensive care unit in a London hospital. I… Continue reading…
DEVOTED Written by Ray Connolly Listen here. Starring Philip Jackson and Alison Steadman Produced by Gary Brown On April 15, 2020 Ray Connolly was admitted to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital suffering from Covid 19. He did not return home until September 25. He was aged 79, with no underlying health issues. Spending over 100… Continue reading…
She was out of his league, no doubt about that. Beautiful, fair and expensively casual, she was reading a brochure when he arrived at the hotel. He thought she might be waiting for a husband or a lover. She wasn’t. He was there by accident, the car he’d been road testing around Scotland… Continue reading…
Helen heard the news at the monthly lunch party. All the wives who regularly gathered at the home of one or another of them knew about the problems that Sally and Tom Stewart had been having in their marriage. It was such a pity, everyone agreed, because they had such a beautiful… Continue reading…
He cried that first morning – although that wasn’t what he’d expected would happen. His mother had taken him there promptly at nine-thirty in his new red fleece-lined jacket, and he’d dashed ahead of her through the park, so keen was he to begin his new adventure. At almost four years old he’d… Continue reading…
Suddenly he was apprehensive. Was he making a terrible mistake? What was the point in all this? He wished now that he’d made an excuse and cancelled. He looked across the narrow street. A troupe of Polish tourists was gazing respectfully as a guide pointed up at a red neon sign. The Cavern,… Continue reading…
Harry watched as Amy, the tip of her tongue poking from between her lips, compiled her list. Finally at the bottom of the page she wrote in n fluorescent pink: ‘Happy Christmas. With love from Amy xxx’. Then, sticking a couple of shiny stars next to her name, she folded the paper and … Continue reading…
‘A virus?’ ‘That’s what they said. And they can’t fix it!’ ‘It’s a twelve hundred pound laptop, for heaven’s sake. It’s hardly been used. Of course they can fix it. They’re just not trying.’ The young assistant frowned nervously. ‘I’m sorry, Penelope, but the shop agreed with Jim in IT. They can’t erase… Continue reading…
What about that! A guy who stammers is the most powerful man in America – where, of course, they call such an impediment a stutter. Yes, Joe Biden is a stammerer. You may not have noticed it so successful has Joe become at avoiding words he finds difficult to say. But he knows he stammers,… Continue reading…
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