MDA GEN IE Iestyn Edwards What do Swan Lake, Ugly Cheeses and The Mad Hatter have in Common? On the talk circuit with me just now are readings of MR James ghost stories, a biopic of Mata Hari, a surgeon giving a lecture on STDs…
LIF HUM MDA IE Iestyn Edwards The Time I was Kind to Eirwen, my Narcissist Mother At the station, Eirwen was standing beneath the Suffolk in Bloom prize-winner sign. I had invited her (why?!) to stay at Haven House while…
MDA SPT SOC IE Iestyn Edwards Bus Hijack I rang Traveline North Wales to ask if getting to Mechlyn Spa, North Wales, for a seven-thirty curtain-up next Saturday would involve…
SPR IE Iestyn Edwards Never Name the Well from which You Will Not Drink — Egyptian wisdom Twice, a week or so before starting a house-sitting stint, I went to spy out the multiple dogs that would be in my care. Between that reccy…
HUM LIF SPR MDA IE Iestyn Edwards From “The Widdle-Wuddle Stuff” — my new book about house-sitting Twice, a week or so before starting a house-sitting stint, I went to spy out the multiple dogs that would be in my care. Between that reccy…
ART IE Iestyn Edwards What I Heard on a Bench in Saffron Walden ‘I began as a Lucy Clayton girl.’ The woman was in her eighties, sharply dressed, hair in a sixties style. ‘Deportment. That slight swivel…
LIF SPT IE Iestyn Edwards A Tale of True Love on Valentine’s Day ‘What a creaky lift that was. But, let’s remember, the hotel is originally ever so old.’ As she pushed the buggy down the hotel corridor…
HUM MDA IE Iestyn Edwards Eavesdrops for Monday ‘My mother wasn’t prepared and forewarned about being evacuated, they just billeted her on some retired schoolteachers in the New Forest…
MDA IE Iestyn Edwards More of my Eavesdrops from Saffron Walden ‘If you wear anything you have to be asked about, don’t.’
SOC MDA SPR IE Iestyn Edwards We Still Eavesdropping ‘Brian the verger snapped at me after I tried gently to tell him the church was too cold for a first communion. And of course I didn’t want…
MDA IE Iestyn Edwards Even More Stuff I’ve Overheard ‘I saw the saddest little thing on a date leaf in a library book. “Judy. I’m writing my name because I have nothing and I’m beside myself…
ART MDA SPT IE Iestyn Edwards When Sound Insulation wasn’t a Thing I’ve just twigged about the lack of sound insulation in this once luxury, now faded to budget, hotel. (And in similar places.)
