Hobbies
Christmas Crossword No. 201
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a Christmas GP mug AND keyring. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 200 and a £20 [more…]
Hobbies
Hobbies
Mum’s Crochet Work
I’ve posted these images before, but for a bit of Christmas fun I’ve added some titles. Hope that you all have a very merry Christmas and a great new year. Cheers. © text & [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Fifteen
Last time on Mystery Album our mystery posh mystery photographer family looked out from a Stockholm City Hall corridor, next to the Golden Hall used for the Nobel Prize winner’s ball, towards the Riddarholmen where [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Five
Monday Morning merry readers, it is quite a bit warmer and dry this morning, just as I prefer it. I have been out and about already getting a breath of air to give me an [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 30
I was delighted so many readers have enjoyed my recent accounts of sailing in the north of Scotland and thank DJM for writing – “A life well lived”. I couldn’t ask for a better epitaph [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Four
Monday Morning everybody, a little damp this morning. I had a surprise when I was eating my breakfast, there appeared to be a policeman in the kitchen. However, it turned out to be Bozzie dressed [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Fourteen
On last week’s Mystery Album we surmised our mystery posh mystery family of travelling photographers de-shipped at the dockside in Stockholm sometime after 1925. For those wondering (Postcard from Lille style), are we there yet? [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Sunny Skeg
The announcement over the two-carriage rattle-trap train’s tannoy told us this we’d reached the terminus and bid us ‘Welcome to sunny Skegness’. Bearing in mind this was December on the East Coast, these wry words [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Three
Monday Morning everybody and it’s another freezing one. There was a heavy frost this morning so I rushed down the garden and rushed back again for my breakfast before my paws got cold. I always [more…]