Tracing Rainbows

..a bit  like Christmas.  We had a light lunch - note the Christmas Mugs are in use, then we fetched all the boxes down from the loft. ...

I hate sewing zips. I really do. Buttons, press-studs, hooks&eyes, velcro, toggles, drawstrings and other fastenings are fine. But zips ...

Do you know about quarks? Physicists like Bob will tell you that  a  quark is an elementary particle. There are six types of quarks, known...

My good friend Chris Duffett writes a great blog called "Be The Light" . It is full of bright ideas and helpful tips, for peopl...

...you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man! An early form of gingerbread can be traced to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians who...

The experts have been busy predicting the new food trends we should be expecting next year - the BBC have a helpful  one minute clip  whiski...

...said Santa to his wife, as he drew back the curtains. Joking apart, did you know that reindeer do not like rain?  Their coats are designe...

Bob's getting over his cough, slowly. We'd decided that we would be Very Lazy on Tuesday [day off] and not attempt anything too ex...

I feel very strongly about the need for better provision for cyclists. I am pleased that there are more and more safer cycle routes in Londo...

"Both of us together  One each end and steady as we go." Tried to shift it, couldn't even lift it We was getting nowhere ...

Months ago I read something, and immediately turned to 2nd December and drew a little heart in my diary. In the middle of the heart, I wro ...

It's December, and the press is picking up on stories of weird and wacky trees again. Argos are selling their inverted tree again.  The...

Blade Runner 2049 was released 8 weeks ago - and most cinemas have moved on to other, newer films by now. But it is a film Bob particularly ...

Sometimes there are follow-up comments which I mean to add to a blogpost and forget, and they are just too short to merit a whole post. Curr...

I first did GITP in Kirby Muxloe back in 2010 [ here and here ] and it was a remarkably popular event in the village [although some years i...