Adullamite

David Walker   I have spent the day attempting to sort out the mess caused by Christmas Cards. The mess was caused by not having a wide enou...

At this time of year there are lots of tinsel covered cards doing the rounds.  The religious ones tend to feature a baby in a wooden crib, c...

It was Sir Henry Cole who sent the first Christmas card, and then went on to organise the 'Great Exhibition' of 1851 and the Victori...

Another storming market day under the grey cloudy sky.  The wind chill made me wish I had worn the cap, the prices of some of the Christmass...

    I received a letter a while back informing me of the latest jab for old people those in their prime.  I laid it aside as you do.  Then ...

  It was not just the world outside that suffered from fog this morning.  Rising early, carefully gathering all required for the trip to chu...

It was dreich when I forced my unwilling bulk out off bed this morning.  Too tired to think I yet cogitated over the bag lying on the floor ...

The lass at the Tesco checkout told me how this was the usual Christmas crowd in today, all miserable!  'Tis the season of goodwill t...

In spite of the many items screaming out for my attention I have spent some time this afternoon writing Christmas Cards!  Today is the 1s...

Advent is upon us, the clerics are wandering from Carol service to Carol service, schools and churches making demands on them at this tim...

Mid morning saw me the only person in the queue at the wee post office.  I go there as the queues are less and the Asian lass always smil...

Lazing about this morning wasting my life away.  The rain fell continually and while not heavy dampened everything outside.  In the after...

I have spent much of the day attempting to get this old laptop to speed up.  Whatever I try it makes no difference.  I suspect that havin...

My routine was severely disrupted this Monday as the new mattress arrived.   Before seven thirty I had stripped the bed and manhandled t...

It is almost Christmas and in spite of everything Trump is still in charge. Near war with North Korea, loss of a senior director every w...

Well that's that almost finished.   I bought several gift cards from Tesco, all major stores do a wide variety of these things nowad...

Another day another few hours of fun and jollity at the museum.  The term 'fun and jollity' is not to be taken seriously!  It was...