Behind The Child

  605 miles (if you go in a straight line), a virtual race, with postcards every 50 real miles. Mostly exercise biked, often whilst watchi...

Twelve years since you made your entrance into this world. Twelve years since you first threw the unexpected at those who loved you...

Everywhere we stepped, blue damsel flies underfoot.  A cuckoo in the trees Big green and brown dragonflies, iridescent black and blue ones, ...

I can:  Break open glass ampoules without shredding my thumb (now someone has shown me which way to hold them).  Squirt medication into chee...

Fourteen years ago this week, I was making cheese and potato pie to a recipe from the cook at a local children's home.  I was shuffling ...

Recorded here, for posterity.  Take one large packet of digestive biscuits, remove six, crush the rest and mix with 2/3rds of a 250g block o...

Ignoring the weather forecast, and failing to check the traffic reports (with hindsight, a mistake), we set off for another tramp around the...