Elephant's Child

After my last necessarily sombre post I felt the need for some lightness, brightness, colour and laughter. While I was attempting to make ...

September 15 is RUOK Day .    RUOK day aims to help reduce the numbers of people who take their own lives. A little while ago Gemma invit...

As I have said, I have far too many books.  So, I bit the bullet and today a man came and collected twelve boxes of my books.  And I would b...

I promise that I will stop putting up photos of the daffodils.  When the crab apple bursts into glory that will appear here, as will tulips ...

Quick sand at that. I knew that when my mother took the plunge into alcoholism she became  'a stranger to the truth'.  There was a...

Another truly beautiful day.  I headed off to the pool about 6.30, leaving the smaller portion blissfully slumbering.  Mean soul that I am I...

This morning dawned to a truly beautiful, very almost Spring day.  I improved the shining hour and went for a swim.  I only managed a kilome...