by Ben Morris | Jan 7, 2023 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
Note: This was Fay’s last post to this site, published 1st November 2020. This week I sent the following email to friends and colleagues, and I would now like to share it with my readers. Dear Friends and Colleagues, I’ve been out of touch for a long...
by Ben Morris | Jan 5, 2023 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
Note: Fay wrote this as the main Home page content for the original version of this site, in which form it was published on 11th January 2012. (It is interesting to speculate as to how and when and why the two question marks above will eventually be filled in. Believe...
by snowydays | Jun 21, 2016 | Families, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
This is an article the Daily Mail commissioned in March but didn’t run: PLAIN OR PRETTY? I started out as a plump, cheerful child. I turned into a plump, frivolous adult. Now I find myself described as an apple-cheeked, smiley old lady. I’d be happier to have been be...
by snowydays | Sep 16, 2015 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
Our friend David Hugh Prysor-Jones died last month. We miss him. Rest his soul. ‘Hugh Prysor-Jones was a brilliant journalist and consummate broadcaster across a range of BBC radio and television programmes for 20 years. But his natural home was as presenter of...
by snowydays | Jun 3, 2015 | Feminism, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
The Daily Mail asked me earlier this week, I said – “Since ‘God moves in a mysterious way’, I am surprised more men don’t think the Deity is female.” I don’t know how one deals with such a question, but my husband had a go in his song In the Name of the Mother,...
by snowydays | May 28, 2015 | Feminism, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
Life no longer begins at 40, more’s the pity. Once when a woman reached that age her children would be grown, and she’d have spare time available to think about her looks and her own pleasure and interests. She was expected to be married and a mother by the age of 23...
