Tracing Rainbows

Today is World Refill Day - to raise awareness of the wisdom of re-using, and the foolishness of using single-use/disposable goods unnecessa...

One significant change in retirement is Bob is rarely in formal dress these days- fewer occasions requiring a suit with collar and tie. This...

So read the sign outside the newsagents last week. And it wasn't anything to do with Prince Andrew visiting Sandringham - rather it was ...

First up, happy birthday to our Jess- ONE today. What a year it has been - you arrrived a little early, and you've been making your pres...

I'm a Nonconformist through and through, so I don't really follow the CofE liturgical calendar. But as I worshipped in the Parish Ch...

  I have a little seam ripper - and I use it to remove misplaced stitches. But a woman called Anna Chojnicka uses hers to draw on bananas! I...

I've never seen Silence of the Lambs [too violent] and never drunk Chianti - so I am not sure I understand Anthony Hopkins' comment ...

Liz recommended this book, and so I borrowed it from the library.* It calls itself a "get-real guide" - and I have to agree with L...

Today is World Ocean Day . It is 30 years since the Canadians first proposed a special day to celebrate, honour and protect our oceans and t...

Two more scarecrows which appeared in the village at the weekend. Mine were dismantled yesterday Everything was very  soggy! The big flags w...

The ladies who organise the Tuesday Club [coffee and cakes at the pub] decided to lay on a Garden Party as part of the village Jubilee Celeb...

Today is Pentecost Sunday- a very special day in the Christian Calendar, when we celebrate God sending his Holy Spirit to encourage and empo...

I returned from the weekend with a box of plants from my lovely SIL, and a load more gardening wisdom from various family members [thank you...

  After a couple of hours, Rosie and I left the Village Hall - we'd run out of things to keep her amused*. And the Frozen Yogurt Van had...

We went for a walk round the village on Tuesday evening and found just one scarecrow. A small Queen sitting next to a wheelie bin. Not much ...

Meet Bruno Peek - the Queen's Pageantmaster, who is organising the lighting of the beacons across the nation tomorrow night. This guy ha...

We were up very early yesterday in order to get the bunting up and the scarecrows displayed. Bob was brilliant, as ever - up a ladder, fixin...

  An American expression, meaning 'diagonally opposite' [from a misunderstanding of the French quatre coins  = four corners] It appe...