Before I got into fiction writing seriously I was a regular contributor to Richard Ingrams’ Oldie Magazine. I’m pleased to say that they’ll be running my article about the Dunkirk trip in their August issue, on sale 2 July. As before I submitted just under 2,000-words but they plan to include a number of my photographs so asked me to cut the copy by 800. Tall order but somehow I managed it without affecting things too much.
It’s a while since I read Oldie but I thoroughly recommend it as an excellent and broad-ranging read, and not just for oldies either. I never quite understand this sensitivity about being accused of being old, as though it’s some sort of insult. If you’re old you’re old.
In Letters in the current issue of Oldie one reader relates how she took some back issues to her doctor’s surgery and put them on the waiting room table only to be told by one of the assistants:
‘I don’t think that’s funny. We get a lot of old people in here and they wouldn’t think that was very nice.’
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