A few years ago, I walked into a local pub and was greeted thus by Kirstie, the bartender: “Hello! Haven’t seen you in ages! How are you...

A few years ago, we moved into a 200-year-old cottage in the heart of the Somerset Levels. The previous owners had left us an envelope...

Workaday shoes, and not many pairs either, used to be enough for me. Until a momentous encounter on a train changed things forever.

Already not thrilled by the prospect of lunch with my wife's ex-husband and his new partner, and then things suddenly got worse...