Fings aint what they used to be?

Everything I own is old: my dog is 17; my car is twenty years old. They both work just fine! Until I had a new battery put in 2 months ago (into the car, that is!) and already it has failed.Yet the original battery had been in the car prior to that and it had never once let me down. Makes you think....

RESILIENCE

There is nothing so remarkable as an ancient yew. The book cover of my new collection "Rise" could easily have featured one, as not only do you need a good dose of resilience to survive ovarian cancer, but the chemotherapy treatment Taxol used to combat O.C is a poison extracted from yew tree leaves. But my book cover will be of something else, and I'll post a picture of it soon. Meanwhile here is a fine example of an enduring yew, photographed in Farndon Churchyard, Cheshire.