Hobbies

Crossword No. 226

9th July 2022 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 225 and a GP mug FJ (Contact [more…]

Sailing my life away (II), part 3

5th July 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

I have seen SB’s notice he is running short of articles again and have difficulty doing what I promised last time because I’m still on my land voyage by caravan. I don’t have all my [more…]

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Fifty

3rd July 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks, I hope you noticed that this is my 150th diary entry I am sharing with you. It’s another lovely sunny morning but it’s not quite as warm. No Bozzie at breakfast [more…]

Nostalgia Album, Gibraltar Childhood

2nd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At first glance, it would seem unlikely to drive all the way from Carlisle to Gibraltar just to take a photograph of a filling station. Albeit an interesting one which was, as we saw last [more…]

Crossword No. 225

2nd July 2022 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossnumber 224 and a GP mug AR (Contact [more…]

Back in the 80s and 90s in my IT life I did a lot of work on something called platform migrations. If your eyes haven’t already glazed over imagine taking Windoze programs and automatically converting [more…]

A View From The Greenhouse, A “Mini” Postcard, The Right To Choose

28th June 2022 Colin Cross 0

I never enter the greenhouse these days without at least a sense of trepidation. The worst’s over, that much is clear and those plants which haven’t been totally ruined, even if they aren’t looking as [more…]

More Artwork 2022, Part One

27th June 2022 Going Postal 0

It’s been several months since my last artwork article and I thought I would respond to SB’s request for more articles by submitting an update on latest purchases etc. Hope you enjoy it. You may [more…]

Messing about in boats

27th June 2022 Godfrey Bloom 0

Believe me my young friend there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half as much worth doing as simply messing about in boats (Ratty to Mole, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows) I first started messing [more…]