So, I spent my birthday in the usual flu-infested fug which was bad enough. I then decided to go to work the next day because I didn’t want to let people down at the last minute. Who would have thought a 12-hour day spent on your feet was a bad idea if you have the […]
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 […]
