Whenever I had any minor aches and pains, it was my mother-in-law, Mae, to whom I, and the whole family, turned to: she was an ex-nurse after all. We all lived in the one house (the one I had bought as part of my wedding payment): me, my wife, Mae and younger sister of my […]
The night is hot but storming. Lighting flashes in the sky and all I can think of is Celtic tempests. The mad dash of an Irish fiddler and uilean pipes with a hot bodhran beating time in the background. The thunder matches the beat of that drum inside my head and I want to walk […]