The Girl On The Bench I glanced sideways at the girl on the park bench. She was smiling for no apparent reason that I could detect. The day was overcast, with a threat of rain hanging in the air. Noisy children and barking dogs were everywhere. The air was hot…
The Most Wanted Man We have been taking our holidays down on the Devon Farm for so many years that the owners, Jennifer and David, now look upon us as both visitors and friends. We were therefore invited to attend their son, Mark’s, wedding, in October, 2004. Jennifer and David…
THIRTY HORSES One of my passions is wildlife rescue, but these are mainly small animals a bit different from a horse, let alone a herd of horses! Plying my trade as a flying instructor, and a Pom to boot who has never been on a horse, I still dwell within…
Facundo is a stray tabby cat I adopted two years ago I used to have a home. But, one day, in the way of cats, I wandered into the square in the centre of our city. I’d become what is known as a stray. I had run away from my…
We lived Dangerously on our Honeymoon. Elka Andreas We were married in September 1988, in the village of Bischoffingen, on the picturesque Kaiserstuhl in southern Germany, surrounded by vineyards as far as the eye could see. Bischoffingen is also the place where the regular contributor to Tintota, Werner Schmidlin, grew…
My Banana Deficiency Syndrome. I still vividly remember my mother coming home from hospital with a new baby brother (Horst) when I was just four and a half years old. The following day I was taken to the same hospital for an appendectomy. Visitors asked me what they could get…
Angel in Training A large fluffy white cloud gently nudged a heavily-laden cloud which was holding a brand new angel, by name of Harry. Harry was bored, and needed something to amuse him. It was his first day as an angel and, so far, there were no sign of any…
A Drunkard’s Ode (Gulp, gulp) Blockhead, halfwit, ignoramus, Hmm… What’s this? A C-minus? Not bad, not bad for a Three-time college freshman-ous. (Gulp, gulp) Did you just say incorrigible? indelible? Nah… I think not. It’s (hik!) disagreeable! Disagreeable, my life, it’s un-feeble, Feeble-minded, nitwit, twerp, irrational, Gosh (I’m dizzy) Is…
Advice Be Jasus! said my friend, one day (Paddy was his name) you’ll wake up dead one morning and just yourself to blame better give up drinking, lad – especially on the stout go on the Holy water now there’s plenty here about. Would you look at me, for instance…
About Black Black . . . My dad’s skin color And he almost got killed by an unknown sect Because of his skin. Black . . . My mom’s skin color And she got fired Because of her skin. Black . . . My kid brother’s skin color And nobody…
Diary Of A Heart Attack As Warren the original Editor of Tintota recently had a heart attack, I thought I would describe my own heart attack, since it may interest many persons, especially, men! On Mother’s Day in 1997 at 3 a.m. I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my…
Have you ever been troubled by an attack of the blues? It happened to me one day. Nothing grabbed my interest. I felt thoroughly dispirited. Wandering aimlessly from room to room, I finally ended up at the kitchen window, only to be confronted by the dismal gap left by the…