Biography

My summer job at the end of my first year at university was as a zinc and chrome plater in an electronics factory. It was good money for a summer job...

I lived for a year or so in London and while I was living in Tulse Hill I went to the cinema at the Elephant and Castle. The Oblong bladder being...

“What is the meaning of ‘it's no skin off my nose’?” In my late teens I suffered from depression, and was treated at a local outreach centre. I had...

Another extract from my memoir of my time as mum's full-time carer at the end of her life. Although mum had recovered from her kidney injury, her...