DEAR TIM MINCHIN

Dear Margaret, This was to be the third of the August snippets, in which I would explain my piano piece for you. Life, however, or death,...

I am glad that I visited Margaret on Boxing Day - it had been a while, and I had been putting it off. She died earlier this week. It is f...

Last year began with two goodbyes. All goodbyes are sad, but some are more sad than others. Alasdair went missing from his fishing boat ...

My lovely friend Elaine recently sent me a letter I had written to her from The Train, on the 30th January 1992. We were 20 and I had not...