The behaviour of a Siamese cat is never predictable, as all owners well know. The calm of the Tovey household is once again torn to shreds when Doreen’s cat Seeley instantly loathes the new arrival, Shebalu,...
While the battle for the compensation of Thalidomide victims was raging in the 1970s, former Labour MP Jack Ashley asked in a parliamentary debate how Louise, then 11 years old, could look forward to...
Thirty Man Kumite is one of karate’s toughest tests. Kumite means fighting, so it means fighting a line-up of 30 people, one after the other, with no pause in between each fight. Each new fighter is fresh,...
Most children at the tender age of six or so are generally full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or engine drivers when they grow up… I knew exactly what I was going to do:...
On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating...
Buster Merryfield became a household name as Uncle Albert from the long running BBC television series 'Only Fools and Horses'. Uncle Albert’s famous catchphrase 'During The War...' is relevant to Buster’s...
It wasn’t that Sugieh was particularly wicked. It was just that she was a Siamese.’ Animal lovers Doreen Tovey and her husband acquire their first Siamese kitten to rid themselves of an invasion of mice....
All our animals showed their independence at a dishearteningly early age.’ The Toveys attempt to settle down to a quiet life in the country. Unfortunately for them, however, their tyrannical Siamese cats...
With the multicultural debate so high on the news agenda, Brideless in Wembley is a highly topical revelation of the mosaic of life in postimmigration Britain. Sanjay Suri’s wanderings through Indian England...
