Pure Moonshine-Shouting my sincerity

  “Just a little prick” Of course that isn’t what she said, but Carry On films do tend to remain in the memory, at least in mine. It was ind...

My window overlooks a busy road and so I have many distractions as excuses for doing very little. People come and go all day, kids go to and...

 Good habits are so easy to get out of, unlike the bad ones. Writing is one of the former, and my muse seemed to have flown away.  This is a...

 Everything has an end, entropy demands that. Even the universe will come to an end, matter will cease to exist and energy will be so far di...

 It has been a while. Here we are on the cusp of yet another Christmas and I stumble upon the settings for this old blog. I have been readin...

I am at an age where there is pretty much nothing I need, new body parts aside. When it comes to birthday gifts, people tend to go for expe...

I hear that Amazon is producing a male version of Alexa and calling it Alex.  It is fundamentally the same as Alexa but doesn't listen....

Getting old is probably better than the alternative but it certainly is no laughing matter. I used to smile at our next door neighbour who ...

Have you noticed, that cars are getting bigger as years go by.  Even the Mini and the Fiat 500 have increased in size and engine capacity. ...

We just had much of the house re-carpeted. It is over now and I admit to feeling quite tired. Rooms have to be emptied as far as possible, ...

It is a warm day and in forty five minutes I have an appointment at the dentist. Nobody enjoys going to the dentist I am sure, but I guess ...

We live in interesting times.  At a point in history when we should be forming unions, we are instead seeking division.  Trump's Americ...

I remember when I was at school in the 1960s, being involved in a protest against the obligatory school cross country run. For many it was ...

I can just remember when 45rpm and 33rpm vinyl records replaced the old, heavy and frighteningly fast 78s. I still have my collection of vi...

For those of you, who think that the above title is simply yet another spelling error, it isn't. Fortnite is a computer game, and not o...

I hope that my announcement yesterday was not too great a disappointment to some people. In a town and at a time, not far away, indolenc...

It has been a while since I even looked into this blog. I know that I vowed to write more but somehow things seem to get in the way. I tu...

Visiting a retirement home, a modern euphemism, is a very mixed experience.  We go in once a week to play bridge with a couple of residents...

Daffodils are already pushing through the waterlogged soil, and are the fist sign that spring is not too far away. Of course there is much ...

Ok I missed a day already. See what I mean about resolutions; there is always something that gets in the way. Yesterday it was grandchildre...