I love to walk whenever I can and I am fortunate that I live pretty much on the last street of the huge sprawl of London. I might not have as much as I want but I do have countryside almost on my door step so when I have time this is one of my… Continue reading A Guided tour walk around my neighbourhood
Tag: Life
Posts predominantly related to Life.
Short but sweet – Spring time is nearly here
A wonderful moment occurred on Friday 15th February at 6.32am when I was driving to work in the dark. The sky was clear after weeks of none stop mist, rain and snow. I knew that it was likely and my heart skipped a beat when I saw it. There against a very dark indigo colour… Continue reading Short but sweet – Spring time is nearly here
You think that you know Great Britain?
It easy for people who don’t live here (and even for some of us who do) to think that everything in Britain is old. We’re famous for old buildings and traditions but huge construction projects such as the London Olympics are helping to show us in a new light. Throughout much of the mid-late 20th… Continue reading You think that you know Great Britain?
Why don’t we eat horse meat?
This week much of the news in the UK and Ireland has been dominated by the discovery of horse DNA in a number of popular supermarket beef burgers where a sample from a Tesco burger revealed that rather than being a beef burger, there was in fact 29% horse-meat. Knowing the low quality of some… Continue reading Why don’t we eat horse meat?
Calligraphy: The Art of writing or why I bought a Fountain Pen
I don’t know about you but I hate pens. Not all pens but just the cheap throw-away biro type pens that we all seem to have to endure these days. The sort of pens that 20 years ago would be attached to the end of a chain at banks or medical practices. Sufficient to write… Continue reading Calligraphy: The Art of writing or why I bought a Fountain Pen
Why I did all my New Year Resolutions at Christmas.
So did you have a nice Christmas? I hope you did. Mine was everything that I hoped it would be, well mostly. Having said goodbye to our last paying guests on Airbnb my wife and I had the house to ourselves pretty much for the first time since mid September. We love having guests stay… Continue reading Why I did all my New Year Resolutions at Christmas.
2012 blog in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 10 years to get… Continue reading 2012 blog in review
Merry Christmas and all that
Merry Christmas one and all. So today is Christmas Day, the day many of us wait for all year or at least from the end of summer but it is also the day that many people find uncomfortable. For some it is a day of religious celebration and others simply a day of gift giving… Continue reading Merry Christmas and all that
I’m sorry, I’m British
I read earlier this week that there in an internet phenomenon on the Reddit site known as British problems. This site details the trials and tribulations of the people one of the politest nations, full of centuries old social protocols that many others would find quite strange but to people like myself simply find a… Continue reading I’m sorry, I’m British
The end of the world is nigh: A brief history of Armageddon
It seems hard to believe that this may be my final ever blog, at least if you are one of the millions of people who are caught up in the Mayan calendar hysteria gripping parts of the world. According to the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar,the 21st December 2012 is the year 5125 which is the… Continue reading The end of the world is nigh: A brief history of Armageddon
Stephen Liddell 