Tracing Rainbows

  Last Thursday, Yorkshire born, world renowned artist, David Hockney died.  He was 88.  He began life the son of an accountant and grew up ...

Occasionally when I was a child, my Mum would make a stew and put pearl barley in it. Every time, my Dad would make a joke about Pearl Barle...

On Friday, Kirsten posted about the few broad beans she had harvested which formed part of her lunch. On Sunday I was able to harvest one y...

 How did you get on? Here are the answers  - and Kirsten's addition at the bottom [thanks K]. Well done if you got them all. Agape doesn...

I feel so blessed to have such a loving family. Yesterday, granddaughter Jess celebrated her 5th birthday down in London. She is such a char...

This is Ook,the Orang Utan librarian who keeps watch over Bob's library of Terry Pratchett books. He is a hominid.  The word watch can b...

 On May 30th, Bob and Rosie were swimming in the sea, on June 2nd I was muttering about 'Flaming June' and wanting to wear lightweig...