An absolutely riveting lecture
Last Saturday, a deeply religious friend who has been trying to get me to see the error of my ways as a Pagan, dragged me screaming and protesting to his local church’s “Men’s Breakfast”. I don’t know...
View ArticleJust an experiment
No, I’m not back, I’m just using this page as a testbed to try out some new programming for inserting my own videos into my pages without resorting to using Youtube. If you are interesting as to what...
View ArticleSpecial Christmas Day Post
I know I said that this site is now closed, but I just had to have one last rant before I go. Since my partner died 10 years ago I have spent every Christmas, bar one, on my own despite having a lot of...
View ArticleA healthy menu
One of my many lady friends, who is French, asked me to write out this menu to frame and put up in her kitchen: Don’t understand it? Here are the first five lines to start you off. . . Place in a large...
View ArticleThe price of energy
The weather has been atrocious these last few days. Rain, rain and more rain. I must admit that between the storms it did clear up and rain for a while. “I don’t know what you are complaining about.”...
View ArticleGarlic
I am a big fan of garlic. I use it in practically all my cooking, whether or not the recipe calls for it. I don’t buy the insipid horrible little bulbs you see on the Supermarket shelves. They are...
View ArticleTexting vs Picturing?
After a lot of pressure from my friend(?) and enemies I reluctantly bought a cell-phone, or mobile as some unenlightened folk would call it. I had been resisting buying one for a long time, because...
View ArticleJust an experiment
If you are interesting as to what the video is about, it was taken at “The Merrie Monk” pub several years back. It closed down. It was taken on a Sunday lunchtime when the landlady provided lots of...
View ArticleBang, Crash. . . .gone!
I’ve lost my template! After spending a lot of time customising it my computer crashed! It has given up the ghost big time. It is no more. It is an ex-computer now. It was due for the chop anyway, to …...
View ArticleAt the Docs
About every two or three weeks I have to go for a blood test to have my INR (International Normalised Ratio) level checked because I take blood thinners. Don’t ask, it’s a long boring story. Every time...
View ArticleGood Morning World
Today I had a lazy morning baking and cooking. Two loaves made with real French flour from France would you believe! They use a different variety of flour to us, which is much softer, and you can...
View ArticleSimple dough proving box
Following on from the last post I will explain how to make a proving box with a few simple components. The cost is virtually nothing. If you live in a cold house like me, and can’t afford to heat a …...
View ArticleMy Little Shilton Kitchen
Some of you may know of Rachel Khoo, who is an English chef, writer and broadcaster, with her own BBC series. She had a tiny flat in Paris in which she whipped up impressive meals inside her cramped...
View ArticleThe Front Room
I read on a friends blog about people who collect items and just put them on display and never use them for their intended purpose. In this instance it was tea-pots, she said she bought some at an...
View ArticleThe Vetting and Barring Scheme 2
Before you read this post you should go to The Vetting and Barring Scheme 1 posted on 20 March 2011 in this blog. I know it was a long time ago, but go and read it first to refresh your … Continue...
View ArticleBook of Shadows
Five years ago I was approached by the “High Priestess” (eh?) of a nearby coven because someone had told her of my prowess with the quill and my unique illustrating abilities. She forced a vast...
View ArticlePompeii bread
During the “Winter of Discontent”, 1978 – 1979, there were a lot of strikes throughout the land. Electricity workers, Gas workers, Bus drivers, et al, were all coming out for higher wages and better...
View ArticleOld Age Pensioners
Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and...
View ArticleJust thoughts. . .
The reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse or Parliament, is this – You cannot post ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal‘, ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery‘ and ‘Thou Shall Not Bear...
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