Author Archives: Robin

When do we first make friends and is that first friend always a friend for life, or are later friends really better friends? I have often spoken on Facebook and elsewhere about my lifelong friend Roger Steele. Roger was not my first friend, however, although our friendship lasted the longest. No, my first friendship wasContinue reading “You need friends”

What still lay ahead of us when this picture was taken? It was 1962/63 and this is part of the long school picture taken at the Grammar School on Grange Road, Rhyl, North Wales. This is the red brick old building before the barbarians managed to raze it to the ground. I know the yearContinue reading “Where have all the young men gone?”

Some of us are born, grow up and die in the one town. Others leave home and take a new path in life. The three people in this picture are a mixture and the common denominator is North Wales. Just to set the scene – this picture was taken on the 7th day of theContinue reading “Home again”