Back home again |
Back home? From where, you may well ask.All over the place. I've clambered up mountains and flown over them.I've walked on water and waded in seas.I've plodded through snowstorms to see reindeer. ...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:01:00 GMT |
What price unreality? |
A few years ago - in the mid-seventies - I was living in the beautiful Scottish Borders. A chap I knew there became concerned - nay, obsessed - about the effect his sedentary life was...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:04:00 GMT |
What is it about a shed? |
I want a shed. Just a shed; not a summerhouse, nor a Swiss-style chalet in which to entertain and arouse the envy of friends, acquaintances, hangers-on and freeloaders.I want a simple, down...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:42:00 GMT |
deja vu |
A couple of weeks ago, our boiler ceased to function, taking with it the central heating and hot water on tap. Several eager friends wishing to demonstate their rapport and competence with domes...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:57:00 GMT |
whingers and whiners |
Although my name appears on a facebook site, I have nothing to do with it (apart from interfering now and again when Dee plays word games on it). So today I was disappointed to hear that a...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:42:00 GMT |
Intrusions and irritations |
The other sunday morning, they were all over the town centre, wearing 'funny' clothes like charity shop clowns. Not inappropriate, I thought. Some of them were singing, others accosting not-quit...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:39:00 GMT |
beware night-time TV |
It is our practice, Dee's and mine, to drift off to sleep without turning off the television (I know; carbon footprint and all that - but more than compensated for by not expending kilowatts on ...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:52:00 GMT |
In the matter of deterring cats |
Dogs, like children, are bearable at a distance but a pain in the arse up close. Cats aren't so bad. just so long as they're not someone else's.(brief aside brought to mind by typing Else's. Som...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:05:00 GMT |
collecting |
Being now officially retired and an old age pensioner, a geriatric, a wrinkly, a fossil, a drone and a leech on an intrusive and restrictive society, I find myself increasingly wandering through...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:56:00 GMT |
SUCH A NIGHT - AND MORE TO COME! |
I am not given to outbursts of excessive praise (this may surprise many who know me as a fellow bouncing with enthusiasm, the perpetual smile on my cheery face spreading sunshine where ever I go...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:04:00 GMT |
