Tag Archives: mills

The short route

Posted on May 17, 2016 by

Saturday morning. 6.40 am. Birds are chirruping, the sun has got his hat on, the sky’s forget-me-not blue. Try as I might, I can’t pretend I’m sleeping. I give up, get up and prepare for a weekend jaunt. Queen Street … Continue reading →

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There and back. A post-industrial journey, with cake

Posted on May 12, 2015 by

I used to love seeing labels that said ‘Empire Made’ – engraved on an old pair of scissors or a battered decorative tin. Such a feeling of immensity in that one word, ‘empire’. But I was a little girl then … Continue reading →

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A new BBC radio programme, please, to cheer up the world

Posted on June 7, 2013 by

I’m sitting in a classroom, in a temporary building on a patch of waste ground. The ‘hut’, as we call it, looks as if it’s been dropped here by a tornado, like Dorothy’s farm in the Wizard of Oz. We’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Religious for a year: Atheist-man's experiment, Thinking, or ranting, or both | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments