Grandma – an update
This re-post is a request from cousin Maurice in Australia. A while back I was looking through some old family photographs when I found one of my old Grannie Henton. She was a great character, a “wise...
View ArticleChildhood days
The older generation always say “Ah, in the good old days etc.” but were they? There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy. In every age “the good old days” were a...
View ArticleHallo-een
From my old blog, 5 years ago. I still think it’s funny, even though I was the victim of a similar trick a few years ago. I didn’t hear the door bell that Halloween night so the little ba***rds...
View ArticleSolidarité
At a time like this it seems inappropriate, to me at least, to write about myself and the events in my life. Over the years I have spent a lot of time in France. I love the country and the … Continue...
View ArticleWhere did they all go?
My Blog has an app that keeps my Blogroll (Called “Links” here) up to date. For instance, if a new blogger “hits” and/or leaves a comment it has they have to be approved by me, then the comment and a …...
View ArticleEmergency Food
Every year about this time I start to buy extra food with my weekly shop. I only buy tinned and dried packeted food to store away for emergencies in the coming winter. I don’t buy frozen or chilled...
View ArticleNot a lot of people know this
Some of you may be wondering why I use the name Pontillius in my emails and on my other pages, and some of you probably couldn’t care less. In that case just skip this post. Many years ago, when I …...
View ArticleWhere did they all go – 2
Since the last post I did some research to try and find out where my old bloggy friends had gone, and surprisingly I found a lot on these various “social sites”, and still active. Come on, chaps and...
View ArticleSingle use plastic carrier bags – 1
Shopping has now become difficult for me. I had to get rid of my car for economic and health reasons. The cost of keeping it on the road was too much for my income and my arthritis makes safe handling...
View ArticleSingle use plastic carrier bags – 2
Please read the previous post first, if you are not familiar with this subject, and you will understand why I’m not happy with the way my online grocery order is delivered now. I am not prepared accept...
View ArticleThis week
I seem to have contracted a severe bout of “Writers Block” this week, I just couldn’t think of anything to have a moan about. Well, that’s not strictly true. After watching the latest news on the BBC...
View ArticleMy Journals
A fellow blogger asked me if I really do keep secret journals. Yes I do, but not on the internet, well apart from the one you are reading now, and this is not really secret. In all the journals for …...
View ArticleBraille
Do you know what this is? Probably not, unless you have connections with blind people. I don’t think the person who stole my document case knew what it was either. In the case was my Braille Slate,...
View ArticleMy friend’s and my thoughts
A fellow blogger, who I’ve known for years, recently posted the fact that we are only about three minutes away from obliteration as shown on the Doomsday Clock. She states that “It’s a mix of climate...
View ArticleIs this Art?
Last night I went to my local pub and I noticed that over the bar were several small picture frames of various sizes with poems, quotations, wise thoughts etc, all typed on what was possibly the very...
View ArticleVote Leave
This is important. Everybody in the UK should be aware of this. Please read carefully before voting in the referendum on whether we should stay in the EU, or leave. ‘Vote Leave’ has this morning...
View ArticleAct of Kindness?
As I was walking along the High Street the other day I saw a disheveled man sitting cross legged on a filthy old blanket by the Bank. His clothes were old and tattered, his hair long and unkempt. He...
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