The garden of your mind
Published: Mon, 09/14/20
This year has not been a good year for gardening, not for us anyway. We have quite a big garden and over the past couple of years I created some beds…
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19 years and 37 million displaced people later
Published: Sat, 09/12/20
Yesterday was the 19th anniversary of 911 (as in the way Americans put the month before the day in dates) when the twin towers of the World Trade…
Safe, but, oh how dull
Published: Sat, 08/29/20
When I was a child a favorite of family viewing was Fanny Cradock’s cooking show. Celebrity chefs are nothing new and Cradock was one of the pioneers…
Round the world in seven months
Published: Mon, 08/24/20
I recently finished reading another fairly obscure book I picked up at the Epsom book fair in February. This one is entitled ‘Come Wind and Weather’…
Too much time on Facebook
Published: Mon, 08/10/20
I have spent too much time on Facebook recently. It has been interesting to see what people are thinking about current events, one thing in particular…
Wooden truncheons and white feathers
Published: Fri, 08/07/20
I own a plain wooden truncheon which is over 100 years old. The weapon was issued to my maternal grandfather in 1915 when he was sworn in as a special…
They hide but I still find them
Published: Mon, 08/03/20
In the 1950s there was an American TV comedy starring Phil Silvers called ‘Sergeant Bilko’. It was set on a peacetime US Army base and the titular…
Like a half forgotten tune haunting my mind
Published: Sat, 07/25/20
There was an episode of the original Star Trek series where a particular society has developed an ingenious substitute for war. Bear with me if the…
Happy? Baldersvaki
Published: Sat, 06/20/20
Today is the Mid Summer solstice, the longest day of the year. From now on the days get shorter again until we have the shortest day in mid winter,…
Hopes for my daughter's future
Published: Sun, 06/14/20
I have not posted for a while, there have been various reasons. Handyman work has picked up in a big way and Iduna, our baby girl is half a year old.