Last week I went to visit my grandson who lives in Wiltshire. On my way home along the M4 I passed Leigh Delamere Services and…

I’ve been to a funeral today. My brother’s. I say this not to elicit sympathy but rather to set the scene, as something said in…

Post what? Postcrossing is a service that connects people all around the world through the medium of postcards. You create an account on their website,…

Ok. You’ve got me. I’ll ‘fess up. I’m still here (sort of). When I wrote my previous post (“Goodbye, Farewell, Amen”) I was in a…

I have persevered with this site, really I have. I know that I dip in-and-out, but even after an absence of three months on my…

At my son’s 3rd birthday party he had been playing with a balloon when it suddenly burst – as balloons do. He gathered up the…

My laptop failed last week. Refused to boot up. Dead. I did everything I could to revive it without success – and eventually reluctantly decided…

So with six full days in Ostend, and no car to get about in, we decided to spend 3 days local and go on coach…

So, we are in Ostend. None of us have ever been here before – we are in a strange city in a strange country where…

February 1976. I know it was February because my wife, who was a teacher, was off school – so it must have been half-term. We…