Where 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 ArticleFor the boys. . . .
Flying Scotsman has arrived at York! Posted by National Railway Museum on Thursday, 25 February 2016
View ArticleFrom the Archives
Recently there were several Blogs taking part in Manu’s RAK (Random Act of Kindness) month. The idea was to give help, and kindness to a stranger, or to a friend who was in need of a helping hand and...
View ArticleFrom the Archives – 2
Tuesday 27 April 1999. Weather – Warm, Sunny, some showers. On Sunday morning I was woken up from a deep sleep (caused by sufficient beer last night, but that’s another story) by the door bell at...
View ArticleWales
I’ve always said that Wales is the prettiest part of England . . . Clic on the pic to activate.
View ArticleMinimum living wage
Today the minimum living wage has gone up by 50p a hour (an hour?) to £7.20. At first I laughed, not because it is such a low amount, but because I thought it was an April Fool’s Day Joke on … Continue...
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 ArticleI hate self service checkouts!
Being old I find that I just cannot cope with the bloody things, so I have given up on them. All the buttons and flashing lights are very confusing, as is the robotic disembodied voice constantly...
View ArticleHolidaytime
I decided to have a holiday, a break away from the computer if you like. I usually go to France, but with all the atrocities going on, seemingly on a weekly basis, I thought about staying in this...
View ArticleThe Police
It’s just over a year go today that a friend was raided by the police in the early hours of the morning. There was nobody in because the couple had gone away on holiday. The police were wearing full...
View ArticleTrue, or not?
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful” – Seneca the Younger.
View ArticleThe witch is no more
To all those people who claim that if Jeremy Corbyn gets to be Prime Minister he will change this country beyond belief and possibly ruin us yet again. I say yet again, let us not forget that Margaret...
View ArticleFor your convenience. . .
A while back it stated in the Building Regulations that new-build houses had to had at least two doors between the kitchen and the toilet for hygiene reasons. In the new version it states that there is...
View ArticleSpam,spam,spam. . . .
The snail-mail spam is getting worse, much worse since the commercial firms found out that that I’m handicapped with arthritis, and they assume gulliblitis. I’ve made no secret of it on my Facebook...
View ArticleSo true.
I have seen this many times on Facebook and it is so true, I think it deserves another airing. I don’t think this conversation actually took place at the checkout, it was written later, probably...
View ArticleWhere did the railings go?
This vault is the final resting place place of three brothers who were killed in World War I. Two were killed in the Battle of the Somme, France, in 1916. The younger brother was killed on the Western...
View ArticleQuickie Salad
Looking in the fridge for a chocolate mousse that I knew was in there somewhere, I noticed that some of the fresh stuff was not looking as fresh as it should be. I fetched out all the sad looking salad...
View ArticleWhere am I?
At the bottom of the right bar there is a counter which also shows my location. Today it says Leicester, England, which is correct. Yesterday I discovered I was in Nuneaton. This week I have also...
View ArticleScorpions!
No, I dont mean the blighters on the left, I mean the little blighters on the right, the ones with the bad attitude and nasty tempers. Oh, I dunno, they are both probably the same in that respect....
View ArticleCopyright?
I have an ongoing dispute with UPS at the moment about their refusal to deliver a package after only one attempt. I had a note put in my post box that it was returned to the depot where I can …...
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