This is a funny old post, I'm warning you. I am probably thinking out loud, and writing as I speak – to paraphrase John Lennon. ...

Pauline died the other day. Last Saturday, as a matter if fact. She was one of our neighbours. I don't suppose anybody will be writing a...

I am the one on the right; winging as usual aged three and three quarters and my brother, on the left, is about 18 months. This was take...

Hey folks! Just a quickie – I am getting a bit of SPAM in the comments section lately; nothing to worry about as I keep my eye on them b...

See that above? That's our garden. We have an apartment so we have to share with others but it's usually as empty as that....

Well I am sitting here with pen in one hand and a piece of paper in the other, wondering what I am going to put into the paper from the...

I have tried, over the years, not to make this blog too political. Once or twice people have wanted me to give their cause a mention, and...

You'll have to go along with me for this as it only  might  go somewhere. I will type it, check for spelling and typos then copy and p...

There are lots of things you, or we, don't know about America. We lived there for seventeen years and there are still things I don...

Look at the two women at the top of this page; those were the two women who argued about me and, hopefully, the only two whoever did. Mayb...