Bubs

Banjo and Lefty

January 21, 2012
tiddles04

My little sister, Bubs, is mischievous. But she also has a very big heart. When she was about 13, she started secretly leaving out milk for a stray cat who roamed the village. Mum wondered why this mewing cat, nicknamed Mrs. Tiddles, kept showing up at her front door, but, being a fairly clued-in parent, [...]

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The Most Beautiful Violet of Them All

November 14, 2011
nanny-laughing

Twenty years ago today, at the very moment this post was published, my great-grandmother, Violet, or “Nanny” as we all called her, died. I still think about her almost every day and can’t believe that, at this point, she has been gone for longer than I ever knew her.  Today is one of those potentially [...]

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