Sometimes you can open a parcel or a letter and be surprised at what you find. And then from out of the blue you are handed a suitcase and you look to the tattered old brown suitcase in front of you and a million things race through your mind. I had been pre warned what it contained but nothing could prepare me for the treasures it held. And what treasures they are.

I stared into the little suitcase and all thoughts of the luckless day I was having left. The contents more than made up for the…

Our dogs sometimes sit on command, they rarely fetch, they take themselves for a walk and they know how to bark. They bark when the cat is around. They bark when someone walks passed and they can really get the decibel count up when someone enters the yard.

During the day it is annoying but tolerable at night it is unbearable and excruciating.

Climbing into bed suffering from the flu, which had taken a vice like grip on me and being allergic to anything that is likely to offer any comfort …