Retirement Rocks

Like most people around the world, I read about the death of Paul Newman yesterday with a degree of sadness. In an age when 'personaliti...

This time next week I'll be throwing a few items into a suitcase and 7 hours later the generous Daphne will be arriving to take me to L...

I thought that title might get your attention. I've often wondered what I'd do if I was asked to prove my whereabouts on a particula...

...............to put a smile on my face. I was nearing the end of my 5 mile walk today when someone coming the other way, on the other side...

Don't worry.......I'm not going to show you any ! Last night Daphne came round for a visit and as a captive audience, I prised her ...

Last Thursday I went to Barrow. Oh nooooo, titter ye not. Barrow is THE place to go to y'know. All the best people can be seen there....

As it seems every man and his blog are (or is) writing about this Large Hadron Collider gizmo, I thought I'd better get my two cents wor...

We all remember Apollo 11 and those famous words uttered by Neil Armstrong when he placed his size nines onto the studio set floor, I mean t...

Thanks to the invention of the V-box (a gizmo like a US TiVo) and downloading tv shows and movies from the internet, I manage to pretty much...

These were the initial words most often used by the voice over artist Don LaFontaine to introduce us to the latest Hollywood Blockbuster as ...

I'm all for correct spelling and good grammar - both of which are sadly in decline thanks, in many cases, to mobile phone texting and in...

.........when they agree to appear on a celebrity reality show !! Not so long ago, a celebrity WAS someone. Simple as that. Usually a fil...

Like most people, I have a love/hate relationship with computers. Personal computers that is. Mainframes (big boxy computers with lots of fl...

The Leeds and Reading (Music) Festivals are on this weekend and I'm staying 'safe' indoors. The roads to the East of Leeds were...

My last post was understandably sombre and serious and that's not me at all. I can be serious when needs must, and it 'musted' ...

On Sunday night my next door neighbour had a massive heart attack and died immediately. He was alone in his living room and never had time ...

Ok now where were we......oh yeah. I'd just burst through the vegetation at the very end of Spurn Point and was finally on the beach. O...

I've been watching a bit of the Olympics and we've not been doing too bad really. As I type this, we're 3rd in the medal table ...

Don't panic, this isn't going to be a post about my sad love life. I don't do one sentence posts. No, this is about my day out ...

Yes folks, the sun showed itself this morning and so it's time to rejoice. Hurrah. Like other UK bloggers, I've been moaning recentl...