Today's posts

Today’s poem is ‘Grace’.  I post it each year around this time as 24 November is Grace Darling’s birthday.  Her father, William, was the keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse on the lonely coast of Northumberland in the north-east of England. She was just 22 when she and William rescued 9 people from the steamship Forthfarshire in a storm in 1838. There is a Grace Darling museum at Bamburgh.   It is well worth a visit, and in pride of place you can see the boat in which Grace and her father rowed out to the wreck. Go there if you can.

Then we have a change of scene and come back to London. This is the last part ‘Three Hours from Spain’. It includes a dinner for two, a review of The Mousetrap and goodbyes at Gatwick Airport.  Carmen and company came to London on 14 September and today they return to Madrid at the end of their holiday.