For years I carried around a story about two boys, two rooms and a whole lot of horse manure. Then I discovered I’d remembered one important part of it wrong. Strangely, I think my version may have been better.

A song in a country pub takes me back to Zermatt, 1972, and the strange ways music carries our past with it.

Long before Google knew everybody’s phone number, my mother did. A true story about Norma Jean Schwartz, Bell Telephone in 1950s Los Angeles, Frank Sinatra, Alan Shepard, unlisted Hollywood numbers, and the strange human world that existed before the internet.