where eagles fear to perch

I put this post together because I was beginning to describe the local weather conditions etc within another post I'm preparing about th...

Today's an anniversary of sorts. In April 2013 I woke up in the early hours of a Saturday morning with my heart beating wildly and ver...

Well, I say new but it's an eight year old Astra 'Twintop' coupe-convertible....

For the last couple of months I've been having problems with my No. 1 laptop, so-called because it's the one I use every day for bu...

Older readers may recognise the title from a 1971 television advertisement for PG Tips tea,  one of a series featuring chimpanzees.  Althou...

From looking at my earlier post on growlights, it again raises a question that been puzzling me for a long time.   Take a look at this su...

Must be a very slow news day today.... A couple of the mainstream media sites are running a story about a limited-edition fifty-pence pie...

We finally bit the bullet and ordered one of those cross-handled briquette machines from the internet.  Despite my whinge last year about t...

My wife's away at the moment, visiting relatives and friends in her native country.   One of the list of '...orders...' she lef...

Like most households, the amount of paper regularly pushed through our letterbox is astounding.     Every week, we receive reams of local...