2d Flower developing early wilt (5,4). Last word ends in Y.
8a Cake from city home.(6) no letters yet. Dundee?
12a News of how murder victim died? 8 letters ends in N....
I got a letter today from a community addiction team. I'd an appointment with one of them a few weeks ago but failed to attend. I tried to forget them, but they haven't forgotten me. I've been offered...
... I noticed the image on the 1st class stamp shows Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus. As we're no longer a Christian country could the design next year take account of the sensibilities of non...
If they deny girls and young women an education they're denying them fulfillment in their lives and denying Afghanistan the unrealised talent of half the population.
Isn't it a dreadful regime?...
I hear the Russian authorities are planning an entertainment brigade for their troops invading Ukraine. That doesn't seem right. The poor conscripts are suffering enough at the hands of the Ukrainian...
Listening to The Archers today I was shocked to hear a decent couple out stealing timber in order to heat their home. When poverty strikes in Ambridge is there anywhere safe from the scourge of...
While on a quiet Winter Camino in Spain I met up with a German man of about my own age. We walked and talked and he eventually told me that his father had been in the SS during the war. He told me...
During the last one, towards the end of Callaghan's premiership, bodies went unburied because the gravediggers were on strike. I thought I heard on the wireless that the coffin makers are considering...
...serving Putin's aims. Are they 'useful idiots '? That's what the Tory party chairman, Nadhim Zahawi, might be thinking with his talk of the strikes in prospect helping Putin. Sounds more than a bit...
A couple of years ago I was walking Camino trails in Spain. The longest of them was a path from Sevilla to Santiago. It was just over 1000 km and took me about 40 days. Now, in my mid 70s, I walk a...
...miles or kilometres? Watching a television programme about the foundation of the SAS an early scene showed trucks with enough fuel for a 500km journey stopping on their 500 mile trip. That seems...