… much like all the others really! But at this time of year it fills the visual and aural BBC airwaves with sudden and intense regurgitated nostalgia at minimum origination cost. Words like “retrospective”, “look back”, “C list celeb looking […]
Our photogenic donks for most of the year graze our sparse pasture. Donks do sparse, it is something to bear in mind that (as a breed) they originate in Africa and similar hot dusty countries around the med. Considering the […]
Well that’s not what I wrote – b++++y auto-correct! What I wrote was “Ginger Biccy time”. For they, you see, are donkeys favourites! If you think a donkey is ill, try tempting him/her with a ginger, if they are intested […]
Christmas Day 2019. A lovely day of laughter, nostalgia, whimsy, generosity, fiz and cloudy lemonade (note to self; good doctor’s sample), good food, and shared memories. we had a lovely time.
’tis Christmas day in the workhouse… We are an hour away from official sun-up, but the day is slowly dawning. The stars are bright and twinkling and the Milky Way is visible. This is our fourth Christmas here, and later […]
Hold hard there ombré! Don’t go down the local without being tooled-up, the kid’s in town, and he’s game for a challenge. A wrong eye contact, a diss in the wrong place, and he’ll react. You better be good, he […]
… so it’s off to Brecon and Ty Cariad (The Gift House). But first… Coffee! Then we wandered, and I got taken with the fleapit Can you smell carpet, dust, tobacco and taste ice cream and hear screaming at […]
in Ludlow. A weekly market with a Christmas theme in the run up to the day. and very good it was too. Of course, as the law states “a trip to Ludlow must start with breakfast at the Ludlow Kitchen”, […]
figuratively speaking, in fact it was a BT van coming down the track. “Need to inspect your poles mate” was the request. All five telegraph poles which carry our all-important broadband connection are thirty years old or so, so every […]