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"The Return of Phoebe" itself sounds like the title of a children's book. They all made it safely home from Australia where they had…

I Scanning the lost horizon Keeping our eyes on A place called Hope Hoping to see a distant sail Praying that fair winds prevail To take…

How we have missed our little granddaughters! They have been away for almost three weeks - down in the south west of Australia but they are on thei…

An old  bag sits in the boot (American: trunk) of my silver South Korean car (Clint) . I do not use it for shopping. It just sits there with an a…

It had been a while but a couple of weeks ago, one of my photographs was chosen as the Geograph photo of the week. My prize, as usual, was to pick…

This episode of "Quiztime" requires you to look at ten pairs of eyes. To whom or to which animal do these eyes belong? A clue is given f…

Bert's real name is Albert. Not Bertrand nor Gilbert or Hubert but Albert. Born in east London in 1936, I guess that many baby boys were calle…

Thinking about today's world, we need to experience peace and beauty to soothe our souls. Take us away from tales of the madman in The White H…

This year I have had more personal connections with The National Health Service than ever before. These engagements have been in relation to my blo…

A shepherd's pie involves lamb mince but a cottage pie contains beef mince. Fresh from the oven and pictured above, that's a cottage pie I…

In this post I want to begin by stating unequivocally that I am not antisemitic. No way. Anybody who thinks that after reading what I shall write h…

In Llandudno, I finished reading "I  Belong Here" by Anita Sethi. I must confess that from the outset it had become a love-hate reading ex…

Yesterday I was left on my own. Shirley had headed out to a regional meeting of The Women's Institute in which she is quite involved.  The sun…

Before we left North Wales, there was something that I just had to do. This involved a sixteen mile drive south to the scenic inland village of Be…

In relation to our long weekend in Llandudno, if you hoped that one blogpost  - including three images - was all that you were going to get, then y…

Back home from Llandudno. We had a lovely time over there in gorgeous, sunny weather. In the Welsh language, the prefix "Llan" means chu…

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…