I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas time and will have a fantastic New Year. It is nice to write this at half way between the two...

 It is a freezing cold day. We have a plant tray which I clean and fill with water regularly and the birds use as a bath. When I looked this...

 Does anyone buy traditional advent calendars? Whilst the modern trend is for chocolate filled advent calendars and latterly all sorts of it...

 We used to have several banks in our town and gradually they have closed one by one. Now we only have... one. It is odd as the last two tha...

 The shops are beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Does anyone else visit shops We do and find it more depressing each year that fewer s...

 It is exciting watching our Grandson learning to read. Being able to translate black squiggles into words must be amazing. Especially as he...

Accidentally my mobile phone dropped out of my pocket on the bus. Unfortunately the bus was on its way to the cesspit that is Bristol. So it...