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The Biscuit Lady
Every week, Hazel did the food shopping on a Wednesday evening and every week, the food shopping was rather unremarkable. This week, the regular shopping schedule was thrown out of sync. Like…
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Did You Ever Have a Family? by Bill Clegg
Did You Ever Have a Family? is founded on an incident that for most people would be too much to bear thinking about. On the morning of what had been due to be a…
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Lady Windermere’s Fan – Oscar Wilde
Like several of Oscar Wilde’s plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan is fun to read, easy to keep up with and very relatable, despite the fact that the plot revolves around an aristocrat: wife and mother, Lady…
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Mr Sniffles’ Adventures: How long is a piece of string?
Mr Sniffles was dozing off on the pile of laundry in the sunshine when Lucy picked him up and took him into the living room with her. She put him on the sofa…
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Peter’s Predicament – Part 6 – Finale
Lisa was still going on in an almost uncontrollable manner about how she found out all the things she knew about Peter’s life. Peter was trying to think carefully about how on earth he was going…
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Peter’s Predicament – Part 5
“Your wife, Diane has got rather thick around the waist over the past few years hasn’t she, Peter?” Lisa continued, as if she were drunk. “She used to be alright-looking though, back in…
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Peter’s Predicament – Part 4
“Lisa, that sounds great. It really does. But I’m sorry, I can’t. I need to get to my wife and to my son,” Peter said looking down at his hands. To begin with,…
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Peter’s Predicament – Part 3
So he decided to be honest. “Yes, I am married,” he said, his defeat nearly sounding through his tone. “And we have one son,” he added, looking out for Lisa’s reaction. Lisa didn’t…
