I am a 72 yr old, female, single parent, retired primary schoolteacher of more than thirty yrs experience. I have also taught abroad, (Caribbean island) and I still tutor ESOL. I am passionately committed to improving older people’s lives, having lived in a “sheltered/independent living” Housing Ass. retirement property for 13 years since becoming disabled through an accident in 2006. I have been working for 13 yrs in the local community as a local Whalley Range forum member, and secretary t ...

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay’s first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. – Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to ...