September

Love at First Sight
When Simon and Catherine Bearder heard about a whirlwind romance on Home Truths, they felt impelled to contact us. They first met 28 years ago, on New Years Eve. They spotted each other in a pub, and then at a party. It was love at first sight...

Fifties Hip
Colin Hebden is so in love with 'Fifties Americana that he has transformed his house and garden into a shrine to all things Elvis, James and Marilyn as he told Jennifer Chevalier...

From you : Look what the cat dragged in
Last week John begged you to come up with ways of preventing his cats, Stanley and Gladys, from bringing shrews and baby birds into the house to torment. Robin Becker wrote in with his solution,

Adoptive Daughters
Diane Wakefield and Dot Ellis are cousins who share a house. Dot's mum also lived with them when Di decided that she wanted to adopt...

In-Laws and Out-laws
Xandra contacted us after our requests for alternative titles to boyfriend/girlfriend. These she says are ‘small fry’ compared to her problems, so we asked her in to explain...

Dad's Other Life
Sue found out that her parents weren't married at the age of 25. Years later, as she was looking into her family tree she was sent an email' bombshell'. Her estranged father had died in April that year. And he had been married and with five children...

September 11 anniversary
Nikki and Barry planned to marry in New York. Little did they know their choice of date could not have been worse, as mum Jenny recalls...

Scarborough Season
The Scarborough Spa Orchestra has been performing music to divert holiday makers for the last 90 years. Ken Cooper met Graham and Catherine who are members of this highly decorative ten-part orchestra...

Night-terrors
Kirsten started having night terrors about three years ago. Kirsten and boyfriend James had just started living together in a new flat when their nights started to be disrupted by night terrors...

From you : Lonely Childhood
Dave Cathy got in touch having heard Sue Rye last week. Dave only found out why his childhood had been so grim when both parents had died

No.1 Son and No.2 Son
Sandra Holden phoned to tell us what she calls her son's boyfriend. Since David was No.1 son, Will has become No.2...

The Goldfish Club
Maureen and Jim met on New Years Eve in 1942 at the local hop. As they told Philippa Budgen, but for a chance encounter after Jim crash landed in the sea, that would have been the end of the story ...

From you : Glis glis
When my wife and I moved to leafy Buckinghamshire, we purchased a small bungalow in need of repair and employed Steve, a local builder, to do the work. All went well, until one particular night halfway though the building work...

Parents and Heroes
When Monica and Nick met through friends they soon discovered an unusual bond. Both have relatives who showed astonishing courage in rescuing people from the German holocaust...

The Hen Woman
Francine Raymond loves chickens. In fact she's so keen on her Buff Orpingtons that she's opened the house to them as she told Melissa Viney...