A Blast from the past

Books can bring back some wonderful memories but it’s a lot harder to evoke smells from the past. Recently, I was helping an old lady clear her house for a move to a Rest Home when I opened a drawer and disturbed something. A whiff of camphor took me back almost 40 years and I […]

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You’ll Never Know Just How Much I Love You

“You’ll Never Know Just How Much I Love You” is the short story included in Christmas Fireside Stories. Christmas, 1943. The post office at Goring-on-Sea is surrounded by a heavy blanket of winter snow but nothing can stop the last post, or the power of true love at Christmas time. I was thrilled to be […]

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