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My Summer of Love by Margery Higglebottom

My Summer of Love by Margery Higglebottom

Share His name was Arvel Edwin Tranter but, for reasons that were never clear, we called him Berny. In the summer of 1957 his garden parties were the place to be for anyone wishing to stand at the top of Britain’s dizzying social ladder. I was invited, I would like to think, in response to...

Titles Like a Tattoo by Margery Higglebottom

Share You’ll be happy to know, dear reader, that my skin remains unsullied. Not that the opportunity has never presented itself. In the heart of the darling Bedfordshire countryside there lives a certain much-loved radio personality who has often tried to wend his baritone way onto my left thigh. Why the left I have never...