Devil Slaying Amongst Other Things

      There is history in the making this week in the Canary Islands. Pope Leo XIV visits Tenerife today, finishing his official visit to Sp...

  When I started my love affair with the Canary Islands three decades ago, I was enchanted by what the eight islands had to offer, especiall...

  The streets of Puerto de la Cruz in North Tenerife are something not to be missed if you visit the island. Filled with little bars and c...

           Looking good at the age of 75 is hard work, especially if you are celebrating your birthday in the public eye. Things began to bu...

           A new year has dawned, and I decided it was time to unburden clutter from a cabinet that had been groaning and sighing for a very...

       ‘ Her name is Bella, she is a robot,’ for some reason I wanted to sing that line to the tune of Copacabana, by Barry Manilow.     But...

       I had the pleasure of writing a poem for a school poetry reading project in Kenya, and was delighted when I heard the young boy readi...