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“You could buy a shoe box in Mayfair...” Such was the strapline of an advertisement by ‘Locate Guernsey’ in the House & Home section...

I’d been teaching English in Milan. Two colleagues, Gary and Andrew, driving home to UK for Christmas, invite me to join them.

Jane, my recently-widowed 95-year old mother-in-law didn’t say exactly “Burn my love letters!”. But close enough...

George Bernard Shaw once wrote that England and the USA were “two countries divided by a common tongue”. But what happens when one...

Henry Ford said “History is bunk”. Hold on while I correct that: “History is more or less bunk.” (Chicago Tribune, 25 May 1916).