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Our rental in Llandudno Health appointments have been coming thick and fast for me. If it's not one thing it's another. They have prevent…

QUIZTIME WITH MEIKE Today we have another guest quizsetter. It's my friend Meike from Ludwigsburg, Germany. Her long-running blog is called &q…

It's Liberation Day! Hip hip hooray! All of out troubles will fly away. Tariff time is here at last - Our future rises from the past Wi…

Lightning Let me be gentle. No, I am not frothing at the mouth. Yes. Let me smile and provide the following guidance with cheery goodwill. After a…

I feel sure that the title of this blogpost will have sent dozens of visitors fleeing to the hills. However, Yorkshire Pudding is a blog that does…

"The Visionary" (1989) at Mar-a-Lago Where is the 47th President of the USA this weekend? Do you really need to ask? He's at h…

"I don't want realism. I want magic!" - Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" ⦿ Blanche DuBois is one of the mo…

Last weekend, Ian's girlfriend Sarah took a photograph of the three little cousins together. They were in our front room round the coffee tabl…

Just four miles out of Sheffield, Hathersage is a substantial village set in the lovely shelter of The Hope Valley. St Michael's Church is locat…

The Quiztime theme on this occasion is the moon - as the image above suggests. As per usual, there are ten questions and the answers will be given…

At one thirty this afternoon, I set off walking to the city centre. It is about two miles from our house. I opted to walk purely for the exercise. …

What a fine portrait of Donald J. Trump was created by  artist Sarah Boardman. It hangs in the Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver. Through …

Ian on the way up - dispensing with his training top Today was the day of The Sheffield Half Marathon. Plenty of roads in our sector of the city …

This blogpost is largely a memo to my future self about a significant health week in which issues  and question marks seemed to swarm around me lik…

Phoebe called her lamb "Lambie" which seems to me a perfect name for a recently born lamb. Lambie was born at Whirlow Hall Farm a month …

The art of drystone walling - by the path to Totley Bents On Tuesday morning, I undertook the same circular walking route that I have followed fou…

Wow! This week I have watched the T.V. mini-series "Adolescence" - courtesy of Netflix. My apologies to you if you cannot access Netflix.…

My maternal grandfather was a coal miner and so was his father before him. Most of the  men on my mother's side of the family worked in the coa…