Retirement Rocks

Having crossed the Atlantic almost 50 times and, health permitting, plan on making many more crossings in the future, I was more than shocke...

I'm fortunate enough to live a short distance from Roundhay Park , at 700 acres, one of the largest city parks in Europe.  I've post...

I may be using a PC to create this blog post but a few of the sentiments contained within it may not be classed as very PC !  I'm not ou...

Being the world traveller that I am (cough, cough), I'm sure many countries have variations on pedestrian crossing signs.  Well except i...

Following on from my recent post about my possessed doorbell , I now have to inform you about my enchanted toothbrush ! I've got one of ...

I'm not in the habit of wishing a happy wedding anniversary to family and friends, never mind total strangers but I'll make an excep...

This news item caught my attention today.   As a few of our expenses fiddling MPs are supposed to be considering 'jumping' from the...

Once upon a time, well a few years ago actually, I bought a wireless doorbell. The push button bit went on my doorframe and the 'bell...

There are hundreds of cute shops in small picturesque towns and villages in The Lake District. It's just that sort of place.  Yes they c...

On our recent trip to London, I noticed a few changes, as you'd expect when visiting a capital city for the first time in several years....

Last night I was on the internet as usual and wanted something 'pretty' to look at on the tv as background.  When in my armchair wit...

As I said in a previous post, when we were up in The Lake District last week, we went to Coniston Water and popped out onto the lake for a s...

There might well be a few short food posts coming over the next few days as on our Barrow trip we did eat lots of jolly good food.  Local st...

We got back from Barrow yesterday just in time for me to watch Leeds blowing their chances of getting promoted and so 'we' have to f...

It's all gone a bit dark here in Barrow which isn't surprising considering its almost midnight. I came up to this far flung corner o...

As I've said before, I'm not really a city person, prefering the countryside instead. I live just across the Leeds outer ring road a...

Making our way to see the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park on Thursday, we passed along the edge of The Serpentine and came upo...

I think that was the phrase a few decades ago when anyone went to visit London from another part of the UK.  No matter where you lived geogr...

In a previous UWOTD post (Ulster Word Of The Day) I mentioned how we'd call a bottle of soda or pop, a mineral.   When I was at school a...

For some reason my old school song (the opening words of which make up the title of this post) came into my mind the other day and I made up...