Tag: relatives

• Last Respects

  The polished walnut coffin ploughed its wavering progress through the rain, a galleon borne up like ocean by six solemn shoulders in long black coats.  Before it were the doors of the crematorium, a softly lit beacon in the grey morning, from within which harbour’s safe embrace a rich contralto voice intoned the ‘Eriskay Love Lilt’.  […]

  frederick anderson

  January 21, 2016

  Short Stories, Uncategorized

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• Mother’s Day – A Matter of Family Values

  In my country, we have Mothering Sunday.   That’s today. It’s the fourth Sunday in Lent, if anyone is interested in the jigsaw puzzle of the Christian calendar, and it remembers St. John of the Ladder, or St. John Climacus (Climacus – climb – ladder; gettit?  Don’t you just love Latin?).  It was once called Laetare […]

  frederick anderson

  March 15, 2015

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