A Dickens of a Christmas      At a gathering my mother met the great-grandson of Charles Dickens. Cedric Dickens is his name. He was...

I Need You      Helen is wearing her new shawl. I had to put on a thinking-cap (a knitted one of course) while it took me some d...

A u t u m n O p t i mi s m      Crawling out of its hiding place into the sunshine a woolly bear posed itself on a pot of thyme jus...