No, its not my dad, its someone else. Being thrown out of the house by our daughters last night as they wanted to host something called “a birthday party”, the woman and I debated at length where to go, we don’t do “going out” very much these days and some of the pubs around here [...]

…So after a few hours waiting in a holding pen in the maternity suite during which the boredom was only relieved by listening to the bitching and whining coming from an Australian woman in the next cubicle who thought that she was about to drop a baby any minute now despite the nurses telling her [...]

21 years ago today… Twenty one years ago today it would be a Saturday, we’d be living in a new two bedroom house on a new housing estate close to where we live now. We had Samantha our German Shepherd dog to guard the house, of the twelve houses in the cul-de-sac that was our [...]

Click it, it gets bigger The latest one off the production line, entitled “A Fine Day For Drying” and depicts a scene from the Pennine moorland landscape where old farmhouses like these are scattered on the upper moorlands, long houses they are known as, 100, 200 years old, often older, from the days when a [...]

Don’t know why I like Roy Orbison, there is no reason why I should like him, he was having hits in the 60s when I was enjoying the likes of The Beatles and a whole phalanx of British pop groups, he was a throwback to the fifties, even though he wasn’t, appealed to a slightly [...]

So the binmen continue their strike after yesterday rejecting the City Councils “best and final offer” and their bullish Union leaders are making noises about continuing at least until Christmas. Methinks its time to start burning our rubbish in the garden, fortunately I have a very efficient chimenea that roars like a railway engine when [...]