Tracing Rainbows

I was enjoying a leisurely breakfast on Saturday when Bob said "There's a Yard Sale on Etling Green today, I passed a sign yesterda...

I have a strange holiday habit - I like wandering round foreign supermarkets, and buying interesting packets to bring home. I think that I m...

  A couple of weeks ago we were at a Village Yard Sale. I picked up a spare Pyrex Bowl for 10p and a second melamine bowl for 20p. The first...

Blogfriends will know how much I love words, their meanings and their history In Greek. lego  means I say In Latin, it can be mean I collect...

I love puzzles, and do a daily killer sudoku each morning - a 3 x 3 grid into which I have to fit numbers. But this week I have done a diffe...

I remember many years ago reading an article in a magazine about packing to go on holiday. It said this: Put EVERY thing you think you need ...

N ot a new kid's TV channel, this means Cornerstones Before BBQ! Bob thought it was about time we did another BBQ for all the neighbours...

 Still hot here. I have an answer for one question, and then a question for which I'd really appreciate your answers. Thank you. [1] Wha...

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...

The words “to coin” can be used as a verb with a literal meaning to mint a coin, but in 14th century Europe, the term “coining” was associa...

Two cotton skirts, one  navy and white fishes,   the other    a pretty leafy print on a golden background. Except this is the same skirt, i...

Back in the 80s my friend invited me to go with her on a shopping trip to Bromley. Having dropped our daughters off at Primary School, we we...

We used to sing "Molly Malone" at school in music lessons. Did you? When I was a child, we would visit the family in Leigh On Sea,...

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...

Usually when I go out to do a proper supermarket trip, it is planned in advance so I have the bags. But sometimes I am out, and buy somethin...

A new Lidl opened in Dereham last month . Excited shoppers queued in the rain [not me, I was in Manchester that week] It's a lovely big ...

I found a mini kit to make a French Hen in the CS. Is it for Christmas or Easter? Corine Lapierre is a Frenchwoman living in Yorkshire, who ...