Your letter made me think about the relative distance I live away from my so-called home country, and the ease with which I could physically return. One of the wonderful aspects of living in the middle of Europe – even if it is not the geographical middle – is the ease with which a person…

Technology is not the be-all and end-all of life, and this is something many people still have to learn, especially those who have been brought up believing that all new advances are a must-have for them, and that to fall back with an older smart phone model, or not have the latest application for communication…

The wonderful thing about letter writing, when it is on a personal level and not business or merely a ‘thank-you’ for something, is that it can follow absolutely any path you would wish. It can meander like a country lane, dive into valleys, climb hills, ford streams, surmount stiles, negotiate obstacles to your heart’s content…

I’m pleased to hear that you are gaining replies: there is nothing more disheartening than to sit and wait in the hope something is going to happen, something which so many people enjoy, and then receive nothing whatsoever. Of course, the level of competition is extremely high, which would make us all hope that what…

Every time someone asks me how old I am,  I have to take a moment or two to consider and, truth be known, to work it out for myself. It’s not that the number of birthdays I have lived through is so massive that calculation takes time, but the fact that it has become so…

The second thing that your letter awoke in me was a memory of when I was much younger, still going to school, and had just been pulled up by the school principal for something he considered to be wrong, but most other people would simply have shrugged off. I think it had something to do…

I can understand how you feel about needing to wait longer than usual before writing a reply to one of my letters, or taking a break before doing other things which might normally take some form of priority, I do it myself now and then and always have a strange feeling in my stomach about…