The following day I had a hangover. I was feeling sick with tiredness, aching all over, and my head refused to stop pounding despite downing...Read More
At school, my birthday almost always fell during the October break, allowing me to escape the bumps, thumps to the arm and any other unpleas...Read More
Last week I was down in Brixham, Devon, visiting my siblings, nephew and nieces - detouring via Chesterfield on the way down to visit my fat...Read More
The 25th of January is Burns Night – when Scotland, and many around the world of Scottish descent, celebrate the birth of the nation’s poet,...Read More
. Blogging has taken a bit of a back seat lately. Unlike previous problems of not knowing what to blog about, at the moment there is too mu...Read More
. The barbecue: bastion of male pride, dominance, status and virility. Females are only allowed within 10 feet in order to bring over the ch...Read More
. It was going to be wet and windy, at least to begin with, on Food Town Day, so Rogan needed some kind of shelter to set his home baking st...Read More
. My stepdaughter, Holly, has been down visiting us this past week. She was 4 when I first met her; she’ll be 23 next birthday. I thought it...Read More