The lure of libraries for me would never match that period of my tertiary education. Apart from the university’s library I also frequented the Morecambe Library, a treasure trove of national and international magazines and newspapers. My gateway to the world! A unique structure consisting of three linked octagons and a modern interior with stylish …
I’ve run the length and breadth of the Trough of Bowland’s valleys, farmlands, fells and moors, almost always finishing at Williamson Park’s Ashton Memorial to sprint up and down its spiralling steps for condition training. Decades later, during my tenure as the President of the Lancaster and Morecambe District Law Society, it was in Williamson …
Philip thought of Italy, and the whole situation was saved. Even I hadn’t realised how deeply I’d been seduced by that one sentence from my choice of senior Cambridge literature in 1969, E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread. At seventeen, the line struck me immediately for the sole reason it had my name in …
In the mid-seventies, I watched the BBC’s ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris in dialogue with John Lennon in Manhattan and it felt like John was talking to me directly when he teased, ‘Hello England, keep your chin up. We’ll meet again’. Above all, I loved his style, cheeky genius and his total ease with confessions like ‘I’ve …
A third-generation Malaysian Geetha K was born in the coastal town of Port Dickson and raised in KL’s fringes. A dedicated educator for two decades she began as a language teacher in the private sector rising to the position of department head. She then moved her commitment to her other passion of writing, which led …
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To my family and most of my clan, Malaya’s rubber wealth brought mainly prosperity, with some pain. It wasn’t so across the plantation industry, as I grew up witnessing. “There is no sin beyond the equator. Caoutchouc was first called Indian rubber because it came from the Indies, and the earliest European use of it …
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Back in the day, Lancaster had a reputation for ‘lunatics and linoleum’ and I had completed my linoleum journey. The other was looming.
No one has pinned me down to routines and responsibilities as George had – and I did so with utmost love from the time I picked him up as a two-week-old. And his unconditional love, loyalty, and guardianship of me had nothing to do with the Fat Boy air bed, Jack Wolfskin blue mattress with …
