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A Man's a Man for A' That Is there for honest Poverty  That hings his head, an' a' that;  The coward slave-we pass...

I was going to regale you with a post full of insight and understanding.  I could have put the world in its place, given wisdom regardi...

'The Real Dad's Army' is the diary of Rodney Foster, written during the Second World War.  Foster had been born in Ind...

Friday is the sixth day of the week, unless you are Jewish, Muslim or unable to count. The name in northern Europe derives from  '...

RDG asked what a 'Burns Supper' was. I thought I would quickly inform you to please her and avoid going out in the rain.  Rain...

Burns House, Mauchline Epitaph for James Smith Lament him, Mauchline husbands a',  He aften did assist ye;  For had ye st...

Free Foto How lovely!  The farmers will be pleased!  No muttering that there is insufficient rainfall so far this year as it has te...

Stonehenge in between rain storms  Around 10,000 BC the ice that had covered the Northern Hemisphere began to recede.  This reached a...

Daily Mail I know I should not laugh but I am afraid I cannot help it.  This 'Daily Mail story makes me laugh even though it w...

Not sure if I ever posted this one.  I took it in the early 80's during the summertime, (I think it was Saturday the 15th that year...

So what gives with Adsense?  I have this on here yet by using Chrome, owned by Google, I cannot see any! I note that my earnings have r...

The Red Cross food parcel sent to me at Christmas by my intelligent sister (she knew this was cheaper than a present) contained, beside...

Braintree Times This is really a small quiet town, actually quite boring to be honest. It contains all most folks require, shops, ...

The sun was shining, the sky was blue, so this afternoon, once I had worked up the courage, I got out onto the bike for the first tim...

The frost still lay heavy on the ground well into the morning today, although I went nowhere near it until then, and I expect it will b...

I post this for the benefit of nostalgia.  This is a needle on a 'record player' scratching its merry way across a black vinyl...

Most of this morning was divided between disputing with racist unthinking Englishmen on online papers website.  The fact that Scotlan...

Watching football....

'Tapestry' by Carole King came out in 1971/  This album was so much one for its time that to me it says something still abou...

Daily Mail For one our PR PM has decided to have a Cabinet meeting in the middle of the new made 'Handball Court' at the Ol...