The Driving Lesson

"She had even nicknamed her vibrator Ché."

I had been giving my wife's niece Clare driving lessons for almost a month, usually going out in my car on Saturday afternoons. She’d initially signed up with a local driving school, but got rattled and lost confidence after her...

Strangers On A Train

"My very own snow-capped Sugar Loaf"

I was tucked away quietly in a window seat at the back of the train carriage, headed for a break on the Welsh Gower coast. I was reading a raunchy story in a lads’ magazine, folded inside a copy of...

Mum’s Friend Edna Part 1

"Disinhibition is our aim as we draw up a list..."

My mother's world was quiet and hypnotic. I was staying with her for a couple of weeks in my childhood home on the Norfolk coast. You may have read the previous stories from this time; Mum's Friend Dorothy and Grace...