In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.