November, what’s not to love? My mother, my brother and I have birthdays within 5 days of one another. The whole of the month just feels like one long jamboree. Having a birthday around Bonfire night is excellent. I get one whole week of fireworks which is of course my due, and quite frankly, if […]
I was going to write about All Saints Day but quickly realised that I could not better the William Walsham How hymn, ‘For all the saints, who from their labours rest’. I decided not to embarrass myself, or distress you with my pathetic efforts. As usual, inspiration came after a short nap. I was changing […]
Today’s post is mostly pictorial. I was messing about putting images on our Pinterest page and I came across a picture of a spiral staircase and it hit me like a thunderclap. I realised that at the back of my mind I’ve been looking at the trees and the falling leaves and the flight patterns […]
This is the post I was supposed to write yesterday. I had decided on a mostly pictorial post, featuring signs that make me laugh, and I had quite a few of them. In particular, the one about the US military’s identification chart always cracks me up. They have a blanket policy of denying the existence […]
I met a friend earlier today as I was walking through my local park and she had her son with her. Or rather, her son was one mile ahead of her trundling happily along, pushing his trike. Looking at him and the other children in the park, I was astonished to see how wonderful their […]
