A note to my readers

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...

Fay Weldon 22 September 1931 — 4 January 2023

Fay died at a care home in Northampton, England, close to family and friends, on 4 January 2023, at the age of 91. Her last post to this site, just less than a year ago, was an apology to her readers for a too-long silence. Her voice, through her books, remains as...

Plain or pretty?

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...

Sad

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...