I sometimes think how amazing it is, when we are sipping, or drinking rather faster when the weather is cold, our Nelson's blood in the pub 'The Nelson' that is in Nelson's birthplace, Burnham Thorpe on the North Norfolk coast, next village to o... Read more

We have just enjoyed a heat wave in Scotland! 21 deg....if that's not freaky, what is! We were in Edinburgh, and Aberdeen was the hottest in the UK! Very often now, the weather is the same 'type' all over the UK and of course now it's generally very ... Read more

Once upon a time there were mild days in winter but it seems no more! The last 2 winters have been freaky. Two days ago I stood soaking up proper warm sunshine and it was like being on another planet, I have never experienced anything like it.&n... Read more

Not liking it!! I'm really sick of being cold...there used to be some milder days in the old winters, now it's just cold, cold, cold for so long. It's so cold for the children to play out or grandmothers to stand around with them! We always got wrapp... Read more

I've just been to Yoga and now I'm wishing I was something like a Buddhist, doing the right things,thinking the right thoughts, eating the right food and living somewhere warm.......

No it's not a joke...well not as funny as somebody slipping on a banana skin...if that is funny!? But I read in either the Guardian weekend magazine or the Observer that banana skins are THE most healthy thing you can eat in every way...haven't tried... Read more

Has anybody else had or got this confounded chest virus - feeling sorry for myself which I truthfully do usually overcome but it's only the middle of October, well it was when I got it - I'd only just got used to the summer going. I'd like to bury my... Read more

I managed to read one of my own poems out in front of 40 people (great I thought for our smallish village) in our Nat.Poetry Day celebration evening with a little help from my fr...wine. I came out wonderfully inspired (not just by the wine) by the p... Read more

My God, I've become Alice in Wonderland! Has anybody else shrunk??

Walking on the beach this morning I found a pebble shaped amazingly like a seal and then further along the beach I came across a dead seal. I have mounted the pebble on a piece of driftwood having accentuated the marks that were already there for the... Read more