I haven’t seen the recently released series of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, but I did read the book when it was first published. So let me be clear from the outset: this blog post is about the book, not the series. The trouble is, how can anyone dare to criticise a novel which is based [...]
Way back in 1980, Prince Charles and Lady Diana were interviewed on the occasion of their engagement. When the naïve TV reporter asked them ‘Are you in love?’ blushing Lady Di mumbled, ‘Of course,’ and plum-in-the-mouth Charles muttered, ‘Whatever love is’. The cad! everyone thought at the time, my mother included. But hang on a [...]
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part… No doubt you recognise those timeless words. Perhaps you recited them at your wedding, or heard them recited at someone else’s wedding. But [...]
For those of you who read my last blog post about the tragedy of my beloved piano, I have a happy update. 😊 Yes, paradise has indeed been regained! Thank you, Sir Milton, for lending me those pertinent words, even if they are almost four hundred years old. And talking of pertinent words from the [...]
Probably everyone who’s reading this post will have experienced some kind of loss by now, whether it be for a beloved pet, a close relative, a friend, a partner, or another type of loss entirely. Like everything in life, there are various gradations of sorrow. I was eighteen when my grandmother died. It was a [...]
‘Wow, you all looked so glamorous back then!’ my daughter said to me the other day, with more than a touch of envy. We were browsing through a selection of old photo albums from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and happened to stop at one particularly fetching snapshot: the one I ended up selecting [...]
Have you ever tried keeping a diary? No? Or perhaps you've had a go, maybe even several, but always given up in the end? The thing is, to be a true diary keeper, as I am, you have to have be just a little bit obsessed. But that's okay, we're all a bit obsessed about [...]
Wendy Skorupski 