Adullamite

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Economic recessions, whether national or personal, have never been good. In times past such a thing as a recession meant real sufferin...

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A young lass has lumbered me with what is called the 'Versatile Blogger Award,' for reasons of spite I believe! The rules ins...

I was writing something for the blog but got so bogged down with it and the football commentary began on the wireless so I gave it up a...

Henry Dawson painted this view of St Paul's high above the Thames in 1877.  The river is full of craft of various types. Behind the...

This is the scruffy, unkempt face of the Scotland team manager.  He presented it, along with a smile borrowed from a tired airline stew...

Could it get worse?  I sit here listening to the game at Motherwell and the Heart of Midlothian are losing two nil at half time, I am ...

I have been engaging my dim intellect on a search for this ship today, ' HMS Invincible.'  I was actually not really looking ...

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This fine old building is the Woolpack Inn, Bocking.  Or at least it was in times past.  Today it is divided into three 'cottages,...

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Camulodunum was very cold today, in spite of the weather man claiming the cold snap was lessening.  Here we see the wall forming the fi...

At five this evening I noticed the clouds outside were still light gray.  This was because the days are getting longer and soon Spring ...

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This is a sink.  In the sink lies a bowl.  Inside the bowl lies, just visible, a frying pan. Now it is not unusual to see a pan in a wa...

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Charles Dickens Today, we have been repeatedly told by the media, commemorates the two hundredth year since the birth of Charles Di...

I checked the rail website this morning and fund some trains were still running.  Someone called from the meeting place but left no mes...

It all went very quiet for a Saturday night last evening.  Around ten I got off my butt and looked out of the side window to find t...