America
Postcard From Canada, No 4
After a very quiet day on Sunday, during which I explored a couple of local bars and did some shopping we began the second week of our holiday from our base at the Mountain Fun [more…]
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America
Postcard From Canada, No 3
With the first week behind us it was always going to be difficult to choose one highlight. Lots of factors were in play, should it feature wildlife? We’d certainly seen some. Food maybe? the Jasper [more…]
America
Postcard From Canada, No 2
We flew out of Glasgow in the early afternoon of Monday the 21st of May and set off for Calgary, where we were to meet our youngest daughter and collect our camper van, via Toronto. [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Northumberland & The Farne Islands
One of the great things about deciding to do 40 things when you’ve been married 40 years but don’t set a time limit is that it becomes a moveable feast without any set order. As [more…]
America
Postcard from Canada, No 1
Home for 3 weeks “Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered [more…]
America
Postcard From Canada (An Overview)
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Coniston Water
One of the forty things to do when you’ve been married for forty years is to take a visit to Coniston. Although it is only about a 45 minute drive from my house neither Mrs. [more…]
Literature
Fiction
Twenty Five, Part Two
Twenty Five is a series of semi autobiographical short stories based on the life and times of a character I have chosen to call Colin Cross. Colin is partly a fiction, an amalgam if [more…]