Retirement Rocks

My blog site collects basic information about anyone who visits even if only for a few seconds. I like to see that people find it and maybe...

Last Thursday we loaded up the 5th and set off downstate for a 4 night camping trip. Now to a Brit, a camping trip would probably conjour up...

When we were camping last week south of Detroit and near the Ohio state line, we had made plans to visit Toledo Zoo. We arranged to meet up ...

As the saying goes, you can chose one but not the other.....blah blah blah. Back home in the UK I've got few of either but here in the U...

I don't mean where I'm at in my life right now. Well I do, but not in the usual vague philosophical way that the phrase is often us...

I have my own bike here in Michigan.....a birthday pressy from a few years ago. It's much better than the one I have at home in England ...

Houghton Lake, where I'm at for a few months, is a resort town. The population is only a few thousand for half the year when the snow co...

No I'm not going to have a go at anyone here in America - the redneck and idiot in question is......ME !! Redneck ? Well I mean this in ...

Sounds like a grand title but read it closely - I'm not walking ACROSS America, just IN America. Huge difference I believe. I got here s...

Well it was great while it lasted and helped to take all our minds of the dismal England performances in the World Cup, Wimbledon (tennis) a...

Well after a very nervous time involving a trip to the hospital, I got the all clear healthwise and can look forward to my trip to Michigan ...

In a previous post , I told the story of the very first movie I'd been allowed to go see by myself. Yesterday I was surfing the tv chann...

Funny but it's true..................... These are the opening words of a 60's song by UK singer Helen Shapiro and they were very ap...

At 3:49 EDT tomorrow (Sat), the space shuttle Discovery is due to blast off from the KSC and begin mission STS-121 to the international spa...

It probably ties in with my previous post (musical memories of my teen years) but when I hear the above words, I automatically think of the ...

No, not the Mama's & Papa's hit from the 60's but the day of the week. I do love that record though - ok I love just about a...

ENGLAND 2006 FIFA WORLD CUP Well it would be nice to say that the talking is all over and the tournament has begun.........but only one of ...