Author: Harlan Covington
I suggested we keep separate finances, and she saved up for a holiday without even asking me first and
I am now sixtyone, looking back on a marriage that lasted eighteen years. My name is Ian, and for most
I am fiftyeight now, and the memory of that afternoon at the corner shop still haunts me. It was at the
Charlie! Why are you standing on the concrete? Without a jacket! The shopping bags tumble down the steps.
April 26 Im sitting at the kitchen table with a mug of tea cooling beside me, trying to put the nights
Dear Diary, Why should I end up looking after a granddad? What do you expect from me a flat?
**Diary 25July2026** Its funny how a single weekend can strip away the illusion youve been clinging to
Mum, Ill be quick. Twenty minutes tops Ian stood in the doorway of the ward, trying to smile, though
When Ethel Whitcombe drifted back to the little hamlet, nobody recognised her at first. Thirty years
Its impossible not to love your own children, I heard Mary mutter to herself as she trudged along the









