You wouldn’t necessarily expect a lot of laughter in a dialysis unit. But where my husband goes for his treatments (a small, four-chair room in the hospital), staff and patients alike become close, with...

For the past week or more I’ve been saying to myself, “I really must write my next article for ANC.” I fancied writing some kind of Christmas piece but kept falling short in the...

A few hundred miles south of where we live there is a place called ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ which is at the top of a long, difficult hill. I first became aware of it...

I grew up a couple of hours’ drive away from the Atlantic Ocean. The sea and everything on it and in it never encroached upon my consciousness much, apart from trips “down the shore”...

Now and then while reading through my blog entries I discover something I think the fine readers at aNewsCafe might find amusing. This is one such entry, a story about an unexpected visit from...

Some of you will know that I often rage against the sheer screw-uppery of NHS Highland (NHS = National Health Service), and with good reason. On the whole I think the NHS is brilliant...

We’ve had a dry and sunny spell for much of the spring but in recent days it’s been back to normality in the form of rain and mist, here in the far north of...

Here it is!  My 50th (!!) article for aNewsCafe’, inspired by your questions, comments, and ideas.  There was a wide range of requests, fortunately some overlapping, so I shall do my best.  I answered...

My husband and I were grocery shopping the other day.  As we rounded the end of the produce aisle a tall, dapper gentleman in a lovely tweed jacket smiled at us in such a...