Staunton Notebook – April 2018

Sitting in a Cornish cafe last month looking out to sea, a man came into view picking up litter.  With deft movements of his litter stick he conveyed each piece of litter into a bag held open in front of him.  He was not unencumbered, a big pack on his back, and large...

Staunton Notebook – March 2018

Call for the Experts Uncle Fred was a gruff Yorkshireman, with a healthy dislike for ’experts’. He used to say ‘X is an unknown factor, and ‘spurt’ is a drip under pressure’.  A skilled welder, he worked mainly in the shipyards, during and after the Second World War....