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 time, for which, my apologies. I have been […]
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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 me, I do speculate, quite […]
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 clear as it […]
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 seen as a skinny, feisty child, […]
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 the BBC World Service Newshour programme during the tumultuous 1990s…’ Independent newspaper obituary […]