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Connections

It has often appeared strange to me how things can be connected. One thing does indeed lead to another. As Freddie Mercury would have probably agre…

Branding

When it comes to apparel, why are so many people obsessed with branding? Let me say straight away that I am not. In fact, I go the other way and acti…

Sleep

David at "Adventures of Travel Penguin" has a well-organised blog that includes regular features. Every Sunday he comes up with five theme…

Misnamed

Everybody knows that the current president of the USA got some people to create his own social media channel so that he could exert full control of t…

Zeal

My classroom (Room 30) in 2008 During my teaching career, I never missed a day because of illness or other health matters - well, not for thirty six …

Rambling

Blooming heather with Stanage Edge beyond on Friday Frances, Stewart, Phoebe and Margot have been away from Sheffield for the past ten days. They hav…

Juvenilia

You have to start somewhere I guess. Today I stumbled across a bunch of poems I wrote in my mid-teens - around 55 years ago. As a child, I loved writ…

Renaming

A certain someone, whose flatulent name I shall not utter, has taken it upon himself to change names that have in at least two instances existed for …

Manchester

Statue to blind World War One returnees On Tuesday morning, Shirley and I took a train to the city of Manchester. I had not been there in ten years, …

Quiztime

As Frances from Hertfordshire, England reminded me the other day - there hasn't been an episode of "Quiztime" on this blog for quite a …

Swearing

You may not have noticed but in this twenty one year old blog, written swear words are as rare as hens' teeth. I don't like gratuitous sweari…

Earworm

Until researching googling "The Carnival Is Over" , I never realised that it owed such a lot to a Russian folk song called "Stenka Ra…

Michael

As I walked up the beautiful Limb Valley late this very morning, I noticed another walker ahead of me. Gradually, I caught him up and as I slowly ove…

Victory

Nobel Mendy scored the second goal for Hull City on his debut Regular readers of this humble Yorkshire blog may recall that my football team - Hull C…