Arts
My Driving Report: Year One
When I passed my driving test last year and we bought our first car on the 4th of September, I vowed to jot down – a year on – what I had learned from driving [more…]
Hobbies
Hobbies
Crossword No. 136
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 135 – AT. Answers with next week’s [more…]
America
A Walk Around Lee Circle
In his seminal commencement address to the University of Texas’s excited class of 2014, US Navy SEAL and four-star Admiral William H McRaven reminded his audience that, if they wanted to change the world for [more…]
Arts
Painting with acrylics
Despite coming from an artistic family – my parents met at art school, I first became interested in painting when Mrs W painted this to cover up some bad plastering in our new kitchen. Apparently, [more…]
Arts
Staycation; A Postcard From The Cairngorms (Part One)
Having held out as long as we dare we eventually, and somewhat reluctantly, cancelled our planned return to the beautiful island of Zakynthos and set about looking for somewhere to visit a little closer to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Dairy Week Fifty Eight
Monday I made a very early morning patrol of the offices this morning and spotted Mickey the Mouse out of his hiding place, but he disappeared behind a huge cupboard, through a gap that was [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 135
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 134 – Blackfritz. Answers with next week’s [more…]
America
A Brit Using Handguns in the States
My father was trained as a sharp shooter, not quite a sniper but somewhere between that and a regular soldier. Exhibiting better than average shooting accuracy with a strong sense of fieldcraft (as he did) [more…]
Animals