I took my grandson to nursery where a handwritten notice outside the classroom door encouraged the youngsters to sign in themselves because "it makes good practise for name-writing." Practise with an ...

I arrived home from school one day to be met by mother in the hall. "Your father wants to see you urgently. He's waiting in the library." A summons from father? In the library? This sounded serious.

My mother lived for dancing as a young girl back in the 1930s. One evening, she caught the interested eye of a chap across the dance hall floor. The slowly-revolving mirror ball suspended from the cei...