Adullamite

After weeks of cloud cover we at last have blue sky. We also have blue fingers as it it freezing, but no-one appears to mind that. An advent...

A bright and misty morning greeted us today.  The unsmiling gathered at the supermarket ready to grumble and complain.  None noticed the bri...

The mass of swirling light grey cloud now covering the land does not engender hope as another week begins.  The English schools return durin...

Shakespeare Café Having risen at the usual time, even though it is a Monday Bank Holiday, I sat lamenting my life for a while at the laptop,...

Today is another boring day.  The highlight was taking the rubbish down for collection tomorrow and eating a bad lunch.  This comprised a (r...

It's been one of those weekends. Nothing has gone right.  Even my spelling has failed more than ever, according to all the red lines ...

Yesterday saw many Scottish schools reopen after the holidays.  These usually begin the first week in July unlike the English holidays, p...

  I have been stuck indoors for days this not for an eagerness to hear the words of Boris Johnson on the news nor for fear of ISIS te...

The Scots diet begins with sweets.  Daily the kids would fill the local shop buying the delicacies and destroying their teeth.  In time...

Waking just in time to catch the end of the Shipping Forecast indicated what kind of day I would have. Not quite 5:30 am and already wo...

The strange weather, neither Autumn nor Winter, has confused the plants and the beasties. Some plants have wonderful blossoms on show...

Round our way Mum's little angels have gone to school.  The streets are now safer, the shops less crowded and indeed much quiet...

While some folks have spent their days lounging around some of us have been worked off our feet!  The brilliant idea of Friday to retur...

This depressing view is how we shop today.  Romance tells us that in the past small shops were friendlier, more sociable and more hum...