Hobbies
Crossword No. 137
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. 136 – Glazinova. Answers with next week’s [more…]
Hobbies
Arts
Art in Cocklecarrot Towers, Part Two
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” John Ruskin Following the unexpected and unlooked for international acclaim that spontaneously greeted the publication of the triumph [more…]
Arts
Staycation; A Postcard From The Cairngorms (Part Two)
Following our trip on Loch Ness on the Tuesday we went into Inverness to eat and get a beer, the food (a reasonable enough burger) was passable and the beer was by Innis & Gunn, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Fifty Nine
Monday Good Morning merry readers, Monday again and Yah it was back to Felix with Gravy this morning. I must have eaten all the stuff with jelly. It wasn’t chicken but beef, not quite as [more…]
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
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…]