It's true, we really needed a new village hall. The existing building was just too small, and desperately in need of renovation. We had tried everything — jumble sales, fêtes, appeals in the local newspapers, but the amount of money we had raised was woef...
The love of a long soak in hot water is an ancient pursuit, and one not only enjoyed by humans but by other primates, as wildlife films have shown us. The Romans had their elaborate bathhouses like the one at Bath. Separate Turkish baths for better-off me...
Time and tide wait for no man, someone once said. They were right. Add to those two fixtures, the uncertainty of weather, along with a rugged cliffside and you had a set of circumstances for the magic that was to overtake two lives, not yet aware of each...
