Latest articles from Helen Mead

COLUMN: I don’t want to be a creature of habit

THIS year I am making an effort to go out to different places. I’ve been asking friends to scribble down walks they enjoy in different parts of Yorkshire, where I have never been. One has just passed me a map of the Yorkshire Wolds, a beautiful area which I don’t know at all.

'Boomerang' children will not be returning

I NEVER thought I would say this, but I don’t want my children to come home. When the first one left for university four years ago it took a bit of getting used to, but we still had her sister to keep us entertained.

Remembering loved ones this Christmas

THIS year Christmas has not been the same for my family. There was one person missing from our dinner table. My brother, who died tragically last February, brought his own brand of humour to our annual Christmas Day gathering at my parents’ house.