Lines from a play

DECEPTION – by John Finch Lines from a play about World War 2 and the failed early post-war years seen in the relationship between Joe and the three generations of his family, of which he is the second.   JOE:    Your grandmother loved Jess…saw her as my salvation…Jess was nearly …

Covid 19

Came across a letter today from Lez Cooke, Senior Researcher at Royal Holloway, London University.  I had thought the virus had passed me by, but he reminded me of some lines which I’d written in  a play I had part written  and then abandoned, giving up the attempt  to rewrite …

Aunt Polly

She was my mother’s sister, one of the five children born to my grandparents. Trained as a teacher via a scholarship she probably agreed with the old adage, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. She was a competent pianist and also organist at the local Anglican church to which …

Names

A friend suggested I should type in my name on my Internet search engine. I did, hardly believing it would produce anything.   The first item it produced related to a John Finch who was a highly thought of London clockmaker in 1765, which might remotely connect, I thought, to my …

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