Archive for March 2017

LAMPLIGHTERS 2 Many years ago before electric street lights, the lamplighter was a man who was employed by the town to go round lighting all the street lamps at the onset of evening, and minding them and keeping them lit throughout the night. He would ...

“Phew!” I said to myself as I’d just finished a mammoth ironing stint, comprising a dozen handkerchiefs, six shirts, a couple of pairs of chinos, some pillowcases, et al. Actually, the “et al” bit was the stuff we don’t iron of course – the stuff our ‘public’ never ...