Falafels, some frogs and a ferret Through stories and reminiscences, Simone Mansell Broome tells us – with humour, empathy and a light touch - about the people she encounters and the trials she overcomes.
Icon Rapture 10 “Did you know, Sergei,” said FSB Major-General Anatole Sweridenko,” what they found when they did an autopsy on the exhumed body of Vladimir Illich Lenin, ten years after his death?” This article is for Members only
Icon Rapture - 9 “Took your time, didn't you?” said Eleazar ben Ja'ir who was squatting on the ledge beside the water and using a flint to send sparks into a torch of reeds and pitch. This article is for Members only
Icon Rapture - 8 Carrion birds do not compile the many names of Yahweh. This article is for Members only
Icon Rapture - 7 He wants to see the Veronica? Tell him he will have to wait until the end of the next century, like everyone else... This article is for Members only
When Scottish Eyes Are Smiling ‘It’s a braw bricht nicht the nicht,’ we all agreed as we left the Four Elms in Cardiff to return to our highland crofts after watching the day’s rugby. This article is for Members only
Icon Rapture - 6 JeanLuc and Igor followed the slight figure of Sophia, as she ducked and weaved through the crowd towards the East Gate of Izmaylovo Park. This article is for Members only
Let Them Eat Turnips When you hurl yourself from an airplane and find that your parachute has been packed by a Year Nine student on work experience who only got the placement because his dad financed the company, there must, presumably, be some time to reflect. This article is for Members only
Icon Rapture - 5 His Holiness, Cardinal Mirphy paced up and down the office recently vacated by the now-forgotten John Visorkis, ex- CEO of Biophar Drugs Corporation. This article is for Members only
Icon Rapture -4 In Moscow. In Izmayolovo Park. In the winter snow. Everything is for sale. This article is for Members only
Icon Rapture - 3 January winter, a transport cafe at the Polish-Russian border on the outskirts of Brest, ‘gateway to the East’. This article is for Members only
Icon Rapture - 2 His Supreme Holiness Pope John XXIV, recent successor to the German Pope, stared out of the window of his comfortable modern air-conditioned private office in the Castel Sant'Angelo.
