I've completed a 6 week fitness plan. Yes, I've completed the plan. I haven't actually completed the first workout yet.I can see it's...

I'm not even going to list them. I know them by heart. Every year they are an extension of the same hopes and dreams. That's not to say I...

I find John Prine on the Tiny Desk series, posted four years ago and I am delighted. https://youtu.be/sOg7mAkrKJw It's a gentle slip...

...your ceiling collapses from a burst pipe in your home, in a different country. My poor mother. Exhausted both mentally and physically,...

...is apparently Maria Carey's 'All I want for Christmas', beaten only by Wham's 'Last Christmas'. Oh well, as the hubster says when...

What ho my lovelies? I do hope you are all getting ready for Christmas and if you’re not, did you see the amazing lunar eclipse of the...

Ok, so it's not like that ancient Aztec/Mayan game but it feels as invigorating as the image portrays. After 15 years of being in...

My plane is literally taxiing up the runway leaving Brisbane as we make our way with Qantas for Perth. It's a cool 20 Celsius outside and...

Deadly does mean something akin to FANTASTIC in indigenous slang - hmmmm

Well, not exactly. I manage to get together with friends every now and then for a weekly online meditation but apart from that I have...

Cancer, it is a headshrinker. The first hat I knitted for my Mamasita was when she was in the throes of one of her many bouts of...

I know it’s not quantity but quality that’s desirable. Having said that, I am pleased with my output. Rewrite of a short story (2nd...

Found a manuscript in a forgotten file on my computer. Here’s one of the poems from it. SWING There’s not enough room My mother says,...

I know there is more to come as a reflection of this little place but here is the review of the house where we have been staying. - i put...

With the world in crisis, here in a house called Egypt on South Ronaldsay, Orkney, I am shut off from the horrors of the Ukraine war, the...

The wind outside this self-catered house sounds like a 4x4 approaching over gravel. The cows in the field to the back of the property...

Before long it was time once again to venture forth and because of the unreliability of the trains, I catch an Easyjet flight to Bristol....

Robert Burns used to debate here and this is where Burns Poetry Group meets to celebrate all that is of and about Burns Poetry. They...

Woke up this morning, Scottrail union has said no woke up this morning, Scottrail union has said no I’ll be delaying my roaming gotta let...

Barely a week after I arrive, we get a phone call from my uncle (#1) who is literally going through security at the airport on his way to...