Under The Hazel Trees: Collected Works by Tim Mansfield
Currently my favourite book! A collection of short stories and poetry written by Tim Mansfield over a period of thirty …
Currently my favourite book! A collection of short stories and poetry written by Tim Mansfield over a period of thirty …
My younger brother Beau and I were traveling from London to Sydney. We had a three hour stop-over in Athens …
I guess you don’t remember Dominic when I first picked you up as a hitch-hiker when you were travelling around …
I don’t think I will ever return to Ireland, but I do have some wonderful memories as I once worked …
It is strange how sometimes you look back on things in the past; perhaps just silly worthless memories. I worked …
A children’s story I wrote for my son Alexander when he was three years old and we lived in Barcelona. …
I was sixteen then and on summer holidays from my boarding school in Ireland. We had berthed our yacht ‘Voyageur’ …
It happened in Dhahran in Saudi Arabia. I returned to my little villa after driving home early from the office …
Some years ago when I was a young real estate agent in Sydney I met a man who wanted to …
I had been away from Ireland for many years, and was living in Barcelona at the time. One summer I …
A beautiful girl smiled at me today. It happened on the train when I was going into the city in …
Have I done it all, or have I just started again? So many things; not in chronological order: Deckhand on …
In August 1914, Eustace Mansfield took his gelding Lisnavagh with him to the Western Front in the service of the …
A collection of tales about the author’s relationships in different countries around the world. Described as literary gems, they will …
The benefit of going walkabout is that somehow everything becomes clear. It is to do with being close to nature. …
There is a special place in Heaven where dogs go when they die. They never leave us; they just sleep …
England. Years ago. Just got out of the British Army and was looking forward to my future. I was twenty …
I am staying now at a family property fifty kilometres away from the nearest town. One thousand acres of absolute …
I had a friend in Ireland once who had more girlfriends that you could count on two hands. He was …
I had been fly-fishing in the evening and as dusk and dew began to fall I rested before going home. …
Crying was for sissy boys when I was young. I never did it only on my own. No-one ever saw …
Years ago I worked in Dhahran in Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf. I was twenty-seven then and had just …
There is no greater love than the one that a dog can give you. It is because they care and …
Five guys weekend fishin’ trip on a houseboat (Friday evening to Monday morning) to catch the biggest catfish in Europe …
Last month I learned about a lady who had bought an original painting of two little ballerinas by my mother …
When I was at college in Dublin I had a Spanish teacher named Mercedes Keating. I used to go to …
When I was ten years old I had an armadillo as a pet in Cuernavaca in Mexico. Before and after …
I once sold Banjo’s old home in Sydney. It was a classic terrace house in Double Bay in Sydney’s Eastern …
In the late 1980’s I worked as a real estate agent in Sydney, Australia. One of my clients at the …
I first met him years ago in the West of Ireland when I was in my early twenties, a long …