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I call this 'Diet Friday,' but not in referring to myself.  My slim, malnourished, eight stone body needs no diet that I am...

On Christmas morning it is the silence that is most noticeable.  The ebb and flow of daily traffic ceases, chattering passersby fail to ...

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'Twas Christmas eve in the workhouse And all was quiet and still...' So I took myself off out for a break.  I need to...

Dunmore Pineapple In days of yore, before they were grown in tins, pineapples were extremely expensive and found only in the dwelli...

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Jerry , who is going through another second childhood,  insists on posting cartoons. This would be fine if it were cartoons I en...

As the sun went down in the west, one goes down there each night there must be loads of them lying about there, I wandered abroad attem...

Now I am not one to complain.  Moaning, whining, getting ratty about the world are things far from my kind, forgiving nature as you kno...

On Tuesday morning as I ventured out to my museum duties I found a card from 'Parcelforce' informing me he had attempted to del...

I spent a very long morning in the museum, dealing with the occasional shopper, a few visitors and then a school from Southend who c...

What a dreich day!  The sky remained gray, often filled with rain, and I wondered about between showers avoiding puddles in case the ...

BBC   Today the world said goodbye to Nelson Mandela.  He was as I said before a great man, the BBC and other medias coverage of hi...

By the time I slogged wearily off towards the veg stall in the market the sun was situating itself low in the morning sky.  It bright...

Carol, another sun worshiper, supplies a delightful song for Christmas - she says - in which people in shorts and Santa hats sing joyfu...

Having spent the foggy morning in the museum feeding mince pies to the old folks listening to the children's choir as they entertai...

Having spent much of the day doing this little jobs that mean so much, putting the hanging edge of the curtains back on the hook, dus...

As I headed off to the museum this morning I was impressed by the mist.  The rising sun was beginning to show through and as I walked I...

The milder weather, only two pullovers on today, brought me a visitor this afternoon. Taking his ease on the grubby window a butter...

This show, created by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, involves contestants, usually comedians, offering a short speech on an individual...