♥ Today, Funny Pearls turns four ♥ We are celebrating with a competition on Twitter. Do take part. […]
Summer 2020
I see from your paperwork that you’re applying for an apartment above your favourite restaurant – utterly impractical, […]
My mother lies on the bed, her austere face a marble effigy of some medieval queen. She’s been […]
London, April 2020 4.01 – Bedroom My heartbeat stabilises as the nightmare fades. I dreamt that there was […]
My superpower is connecting the dots. I’m a blue-sky thinker, the last recruiter said, which is another way […]
I’m not special. Like everybody else I’ve been stuck inside for a few months. But I’m hoping that […]
I had a perfectly nice upbringing. For that reason alone I’m unable to blame my parents (entirely) for […]
You need: 1 cottage in a village setting with a clear view of the neighbour’s front garden 2 […]
Cleaning has never made it to the top ten on my to-do list. How fortunate that the technology […]
Back in Southern Virginia where I grew up, natives might describe neighboring towns as being a “spit away” […]
For twenty minutes, I lay like a human toffee – sticky and wrapped in cellophane. An aerial observer […]
Danny and his little brother William lived in a pale yellow house two doors down and across the […]
I’ve just returned from a nearly perfect week-long sojourn in you. For the record, my first visit was […]