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In my memory, David Ross was a large man. Something about him always made me think of him as a walrus. He was tall and broad-shouldered and ...

It’s surprising how tedious a job it is getting rid of widows and orphans. It took me ages the other day and required a lot of patience. How...

They say that the first casualty of war is the truth. I’m not sure of that. It strikes me that both reason and humanity go first. The killin...

The ninth of October is a big celebration for the Valencian Community in Spain, where we live. It marks the day in 1238 when good king James...

It’s been a good summer, enriched by some immersion grandparenting. That included two short experiments that together represented a big step...

Because English is a Germanic language that has absorbed a huge number of words of Latin origin, often via French, it contains quite a few p...

Many years ago, when my stepson David was barely a teenager, he was coming back into the house from the garden when he glanced up at the roo...