Experiment
St Faith's And so I went to see Richard and Jackie again this afternoon before picking Phoebe up from school. Our conversation lasted for two hours today - before I put my coat on and marched off to the school gates. Again the talk was easy and comfortable and I plan to see them again next week. If you have not been following this blog story, let me just say that Richard's surname is Hines and his brother was Barry Hines - the famed author of "Kes". It was Richard who trained the kestrel in the first place. Both of Richard's published books have been memoirs. Linked to that, I thought I might try a small experiment here in this blog where I pick up on some aspect of my own early life and craft it as though producing an excerpt from a larger memoir. Obviously, there are lots of times I could choose from even though recollections of those days become dimmer with each passing year. For the purposes of this experiment, I have picked village life and a small se...