Tracing Rainbows

Said Bob. It was during the great pre-retirement downsize, I realised that one thing I did need at Cornerstones was a small table in the bac...

If you read Sue's post yesterday, or Mary's , you will know there are some great poems out there celebrating April. I cannot agre...

Have you come across the author Geoffrey Household? He was an amazing guy, born in 1900, died in 1988 - and as well as writing, his  career ...

That is the theme of this year's World Day Of Prayer, planned by the women of Nigeria. WDP always happens on the first Friday in March. ...

Covid prevented many important social gatherings - weddings, funerals, birthdays - and retirement events. I was sad that after 40 years in t...

I've always had a fondness for tins [and for  Tintin, my second favourite Belgian] Cocoa tins, biscuit tins, mustard tins... In 2012, Bo...

It is the end of the month and therefore the end of my knitting challenge. I was supposed to do 30 minutes every  day. That would be 30 x 30...

 My phone rings, and "Becky"* is calling. The conversation goes thus A     Hello Becky B     Hello is that Angie? A    Err, yes   ...

I know that you get what you pay for, when it comes to decorating - and if you buy your housepaint in a discount store at rock bottom prices...

  If the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, does the jigsaw of a thousand pieces start with a single corner?  During Loc...

Older readers may recognise this as the name of a sitcom from the late 1960s. It involved two men [one Jewish, the other an Irish Catholic] ...

When we moved to Dorset, Sir Julian Fellowes [creator of Downton Abbey] lived25 miles up the road. And Highclere Castle, location for the fi...

 This should have been published yesterday - because on 4th March, 1824, two centuries ago, the RNLI was founded, in The City Of London Tave...

We all piled into the Skoda on Monday Evening for a special outing. A few miles down the road we encountered a minor RTA - which meant Bob h...

Said Rosie, when I muttered about the heavy rain on a trip to the coast last year. Her Mum helpfully gave me the Dutch version "Jij ben...

Bob has been out in his Lathe Palace again. He's had a piece of timber for a couple of years [a discarded section of kitchen worktop, fr...