Pink or Blue? A War Veteran Learns to Knit
From Warbaby: Talking About My Generation, L. Daniel Mouer, 2011 My mother taught me to knit. Mind you, I didn’t learn how to knit from…
Moving On
Where to start or end this story. My good mates on here will forgive the repetition. For the past 4 years Ive been living the…
My Plums
4 years….4 loooong years I have waited for my Victoria Plum Tree to fruit….much excitement at the beginning of the year when small Acorn sized…
Don’t know what you’ve got until its gone
Been musing on this today ( too much time on my hands lol) its an old saying but Im finding the older I get the…
Been busy
Sorry for not being about lately sometimes life just gets busy , got offered a new position closer to home that is saving me £100.00…
Gregory Peck Was a Chicken
In my 13th year, as I was walking home from school one day, I heard my name being called. Awoman, a friend of my mother…
“The Queens are Bashing the Cops:” Forty Years Later ©.
I wrote the following piece in 2009 on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City which occurred on this day in…
Happy Fathers Day
I want to thank all fathers around the world in this life and those, like mine, residing in heaven and say Happy Fathers Day. I…
Seaglass Surprise
Whilst on holiday in Northumberland I spotted an event just north of the border. A lovely young lady was at an exhibition showing her beautiful…
Grandad not amused
Grandad asleep in his ‘comfy chair’. Seven year old grandson arrives: “Grandad! Grandad! Wake up!” Grandad opens eyes lazily, “What! Where’s the fire?” Grandson: “Not…
