Tag: fiction
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How an Injury Changed Me
20 July 2025 will remain a date I never forget. It was a Sunday, and I bent to lift a box from beneath a shelf, incorrectly assuming that it was light. It was not. In that moment I sustained a back injury which was diagnosed as a slipped disc. The sensation has stayed with me…
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A Christmas in the Victorian Welsh Uplands
In the high country of mid and north Wales, where the hills folded into one another like great, weathered blankets and the lanes were little more than tracks worn by generations of hooves and boots, Christmas in the Victorian era arrived quietly. There was no sense of sudden abundance, no dramatic break from the rhythm…
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Why I Left The Range
A Case Study in Retail Management Culture, Ethics, and Accountability By Antony David Davies, FRSA FRAS AFRHistS FIoL MCMI When I eventually received the documents disclosed under my Subject Access Request, The Range in Shrewsbury described my departure in terms that were brief, convenient, and revealing. According to the leaver form, I left “with immediate…
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Teenage Years on the Doldowlod Hall Estate
The mid-1990s were years of transition in rural Wales. Farming incomes were under strain, country houses were redefining their purpose, and politics in Britain seemed poised between the certainties of Thatcherism and the coming landslide of New Labour. For me, those years were marked most vividly by the Doldowlod Hall estate on the upper reaches…
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A Tribute to My Uncle Glyn Davies (1943–2025)
From my earliest childhood memories, Uncle Glyn was a steady and inspiring presence in my life. I remember the many visits to see him in Corris, where he lived with my nain — visits filled with warmth, conversation, and a quiet encouragement that would help shape who I became. As I grew into my teenage…
Antony David Davies FRSA FRAS AFRHistS FIoL MCMI 