Tag: relationships
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White Goods Counselling
This was a few years ago. Tony was a generous man of nearly my own age, not in the bloom of health perhaps, but still walking in the sun when he found a partner younger than he, slim and apparently self-confident with a willing smile; a paragon of something not quite within the powers of…
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A Taste of Honey
Inspired by a chance visit to http://mylifewithwieners.wordpress.com/ which cast some very interesting light upon the political philosophy of Dachshunds. . Anyway, there’s this dog. Let me state clearly at the start I did not want another dog. I was dead-set against pet ownership. I wanted a peaceful, tranquil old age. I blame my son.…
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They Talk of Cars……
They sit and talk of cars. After long years without sight or word or picture – without any knowing – he seems unchanged. Older, of course, his neat, short hair trimmed with grey: wiser? Perhaps. Confident? Certainly. That nervous laugh is quietened now, no more than an eddy in the torrent of his words. He…