After I've just recovered from my music school's Christmas showcase, I've come to the conclusion that the worst job in the world must be a violin teacher! :-)
My sister, her partner and their kids all cut me out of there lives this year. No big loss to me as they have never been there for me when ive needed them, though ive always been there for them. (eg,...
Young Smow and GF were driving this eve through a road in woods on way home in the dark when a huge adult deer literally leapt out of trees straight onto the road. She slammed on brakes but didn’t...
Anyone got that Friday Feeling? Maybe because you'll be doing something fun over the weekend? I'm going to a traditional Christmas market to hopefully get merry on some mulled wine and look at nik nak...
We have recently rediscovered Trivial Pursuit (I'm 3 ahead so that's OK!). We really have enjoyed evenings by the fire with this. Finding other question sets has proved a bit difficult (we are getting...
I gather one of the reasons that we've got many hawfinches in the country, is due to the failure of the beech mast crop on the continent. I had a walk round my local park this morning and found...
I got my firs tattoo 4 week ago. I got a small one on my forearm. I got a skin tone colored tattoo. I have been putting Aquaphor healing ointment on it twice a day since I unwrapped it. Im a tatto...
We’ve used the same plumber for about three years and he’s always done a good job. But the last job I thought he’d overcharged a tad. So I’ve just txt him to quote for replacing an existing...
Rather depressingly I have to report that on the most crucial day in the whole Ashes series(yes, it really is, even though it's only the second Test) England have given away 2 early wickets via...
And amongst others he played Mull of Kintyre. He followed it by saying that it was the first record in the UK to sell 2,000 000 copies. It reached No. 1, this week, in 1977 and stayed there for nine...
I often see two little Jenny Wrens pottering about round the base of my greenhouse and shed, but not lately, do they hibernate? if not what do they eat and is there something I could put out to help...
