Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.