23rd June 2022 Before you throw your hands up in horror after reading the title of this blog, please do not worry. I do not intend giving you a blow-by-blow (pardon the pun) detailed essay about my love life. Nor do I mean to discuss the whys and wherefores of people’s strange sexual proclivities. No,…… Continue reading Let’s Talk about Sex…
Category: Ostrich Inn
A Moving Experience
21st April 2022 I have lived in many places in the UK. I started in Barrow, of course, but I don’t really remember the house move from 6B Barque Street to Brighton Street, which remained the family home for the next 50-plus years. My next move was leaving home at 17 after a terrible row…… Continue reading A Moving Experience
All Fall Down
16th December 2021 Growing up, I was a clumsy child, always falling over. To see my knees without grazes was a rare and wonderful sight. If there were a matchstick in the road, I would find it and fall over it, no trouble at all. Despite weekly dancing classes from age three or so, I…… Continue reading All Fall Down
(Some of) The Best Years of Our Lives
25th November 2021 For six years in the ‘80s I worked at The Ostrich Inn, at Colnbrook, near Slough. It was one of the best times of my life (hence the blog title!), having just escaped an horrendous marriage – but that’s another story. At the Ostrich I discovered how provincial and narrow my life…… Continue reading (Some of) The Best Years of Our Lives
Liz Hughes 