Sunday. A most enjoyable day on the canal yesterday. We got there in time to have breakfast in The Stables first. We met some lovely people from far and wide. One family of four from Canada, here for...
Today's the day!!! Our beautiful little girl, Phoebe, finally arrives at her forever home. We're putting a chicken in the slow cooker so that the whole house smells of chicken when she arrives home....
I'm off to Rome soon, and although I have travelled in other countries as a lone pensioner without worries, there seems to be a lot of mention of bag- snatchers in guide books about Rome. Should I be...
I went to supermarket at sparrowfart this morning. I had three items and wanted to carry them rather than bothering getting a shopping bag from my handbag. No, can't do that have to put my shopping...
a very, very sunny Les Gets. Annual girls' ski trip ... 9 of us ... and we have totally lucked out on the weather. It's just glorious. It had been snowing for six days and then, when we got here, the...
This is reputedly a true story rather than a joke but I find it funny, so I hope you do too. Brain Clough would spend so much time in the bathroom every morning his wife would bang the door and shout...
Saturday. Not too bad out, I've been for a wee wander. I'm on the canal tpoday, so I hope it stays nice. Tiggy is up and about. I put some supper out for him and most of it has gone. I know it was...
Good morning everyone - well as expected the heat has dropped off a bit, and the humidity has rolled in ....very nasty indeed !! There's talk of rain sometime over the weekend which is just what we...
I heard about this photographer who persuaded 110 women from his hometown Plymouth to pose nude for a forthcoming self-published book: https://www.photographybyjojo.org/ Apparently they're "arty"...