by jkylegregory | Nov 12, 2025 | Andrea, Articles, Books
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig This month’s international women’s book club reading told the story of Grace, a 72-year old widow who abandons her gray life in England to take possession of a small house she mysteriously inherits in Ibiza. A retired maths...
by jkylegregory | May 17, 2024 | Andrea, Articles, Books
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell This is a historical fiction based on a few facts and enigmas surrounding the son of a very famous author, who remains unnamed in the book. Maggie O’Farrell cleverly weaves these fragments into a story that shifts the spotlight to his wife,...
by Andrea | Jan 30, 2020 | Andrea, Articles
Dino Bridge We watched this documentary once, called the ‘Six Most Amazing Bridges in History’, or something like that. It showed how breakthrough technology in constructing one small bridge more than 200 years ago has enabled one game-changing bridge after another to...
by Ju | Jul 22, 2019 | Andrea, Articles
Enterprising stillness Three small wooden vessels bobbed in the museum ‘harbour’ at the seaside town in southern Spain from where Columbus’ first expedition set sail. The quest: to find a way a-r-o-u-n-d the world while discovering new lands and riches. Replicas...
by Ju | Feb 22, 2019 | Andrea, Poetry
Good fences make … My friend and I were tossing around ideas from the morning news, and we came inevitably to the subject of walls. I recalled the old saying: ‘good fences make good neighbours’ He looked at me, confused, and asked, ‘where did that come from?’ Having...
