In November 1989, I was eighteen years old and happened to be working in Germany as an au pair. It was still West Germany then, and I lived in a small town called Uetersen not far from Hamburg, nowhere near the border with the East. Today the world commemorates twenty five years since the East …
I had a lovely review on Amazon.com from a Vine program participant (Gail Rodgers, if you’re reading, thank you very much! And thank you to everyone else who’s left me a review on Amazon, I never get to say thank you but I appreciate each and every one of you) for Under a Silent Moon. …
Last night I caught a glimpse – just a snippet, I was on my way to do something and I happened to see it – of the BBC news and their special report into the plight of thousands of people trapped under siege in Southern Damascus. Here’s the link to the programme on iplayer, if …