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To have and to hold…

Posted on March 10, 2025

When my father died my mother had inscribed on his headstone the words, ‘to have and to hold and in time let go’. It’s from a poem I believe although I do not know which poem I’m sorry to say. It surprised me a bit because I never really thought of my mother as a…

Does the ‘balance of power’ change when you retire?

Posted on September 5, 2017

We were walking the pups in the park and chatting about our autumn holiday to come. In Wales, on a vineyard, to be precise, but more of that in a later blog. The point was that Mrs Summerhouse had booked this holiday on her iPad. True I’d pointed her to the website of Welsh vineyards,…

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