A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
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Some of my earliest - and happiest - memories are of time spent with my paternal grandmother. My cousin was born and overnight, it seemed, she transferred her attention. I was devastated.
Last night I was privileged enough to see an independent cinema screening of a live play, Nye, about the story of Aneurin Bevan, the man who brought us the NHS. Nye is played by the wonderful Welsh actor Michael Sheen. I am not usually one for plays, or theatre really, but this is absolutely fantastic. […]
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How our life ends isn’t always up to us, but that question too often must be answered by loved ones and health care workers who don’t know what we would want.
A Wearside man had designs on success - and it involved the Royal family and Arthur Scargill. Bill Spalding went into production of chess sets on a full-time basis in 1986 after the success of a set he created based on the Miners’ Strike in 1984. It proved so popular that he chose The Royals’ as his latest move in the board game market. Bill made the pieces by hand at his home in Hetton. He sent a set of his latest creation to the Queen and was given “a seal of approval” for the design. He...
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