Adullamite

With Sainsburys open on Boxing Day 9am-6pm, I decided it would be wise to buy for the weekend today, as tomorrow the crowds of desperate fol...

The image of a wooden barn containing a wee lassie and her man sitting beside a manger, donkeys and sheep all around, has been with us for m...

Christmas Eve, though to be honest I have never met this girl Eve.  Outside cars slowly pass by, the boot filled with foodstuffs, half of wh...

Early in the morning, before the sun was rising, and it still hasn't, I limped my way to Sainburys for my Christmas dinner.  It was quit...

It was along day yesterday which resulted in a nothing doing day today.  This, as many will be quick to point out, is not a strange occurren...

Returning home in the heavy rain after a busy Sunday. Morning service, the last before Christmas, quite busy with a lot attending.  All quit...

It was clearly near Christmas as the angels appeared again on the fences.  All round town the women have been knitting these wee creatures, ...

I headed off bright and early this morning to Sainsburys for the weekend needful.  Being Friday it was a bit busy, even more so as it is the...

I was reading an interesting item re the reason Christmas was held at, er Christmas.  This was written by the excellent Psephizo, or Ian Pa...

My sister, who, as you know, is considerably older than me, were discussing where there were aged relatives who might pass on and leave us a...

Christmas makes people mental. Elbowing, tripping, gnashing of teeth and the occasional fist fight occur when people shop for the last remai...

Yes it's them again.  No there has been no delivery, of course not, it's just that I found someone else who suffers from YODEL despa...

 I finished cleaning this morning, the house, not myself, and after a spot of lunch I started to once  again Christmas shop online.  The ide...

I've finished a book! This has taken me ages as all the books on the pile are slow reads.  This one began quite well but slowed down as ...

Metro Jacksonville   Once the morning repast had been dealt with I floundered around trying to decide my next move.   This took a while. I c...

When I drew back the filthy curtains early this morning, I was greeted by this!  And with today being St Andrew's Day I was shocked, app...

November 28th 1990, a date to equal the 3rd September 1939, or 23rd June 1314, or even my birthday.  For on this day in 1990 Margaret Thatch...

Once again, as I stumbled my way through the Christmas cards, I discovered I was two short for certain individual family members.  As always...

Having carried a heavy bag home from the supermarket last week, I pondered on what to do to ease the suffering.  Ideas such as, buy a wife, ...

When you wish for incompetence, then cometh YODEL.  Yodel, a white van man organisation, has the worst delivery record in the world.  A smal...