Adullamite

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Cameron is at it again I see.  With UKIP folk making a fool of themselves in 'Bongo Bongo land' the PR man has spent much of h...

Racing along against the wind at four miles an hour I passed through this village long before the world was awake.  The roads round h...

Summer Saturdays in small market towns brings out the varied entertainments that are on offer. The word 'entertainment,' depe...

On this day in 1757 Thomas Telford, canal, road and bridge builder, entered the world at Gelndinning, a rural farm in Dumfriesshire.  H...

The ancient Hebrews moved into what they called the 'promised land' and once dominance had been secured they settled down in...

As the weather man decided he would offer torrential rain all day I took advantage of the early morning sunlight to wander around to ...

Trauma!  That's the only word.  Happy as Larry (who he?) I skipped cheerily across the park, speaking to white butterflies as the...

After the hot sunshine of yesterday it was no surprise to spend the morning inside dodging the thunder and lightning.  Clouds rolled ov...

As I sat resting my beer belly I noticed the kid squeezing the fish to get all the water out of it.  No doubt this is an Essex past...

Here is a picture of a pretty girl by a window. (1862) She is reading a book while waiting for the carpet fitter to arrive!

With the politicians on holiday, most likely claiming expenses for the trip, the newsworthy items that dominate the papers drops away...

Being forced to remain indoors by my most beautiful and intelligent niece.  A Radio 4 play (yawn) was occurring and the musical genius ...

gCaptain 'Gardyloo,' as you well know, was the exclamation shouted from old Edinburgh tenements when someone wished to empt...

I need a char, I really do.  Once again in site of my heavy workload I had to spend much of the day cleaning this place, and I only c...

The word Haunting put me off when I first noticed this, however it is used in a non ghost manner, more or less.  This week the kids...

After considerable effort I found the only decent escape from that baby, radio!  TV News only had one subject, the 'Daily Mail...

I passed the 'Seat' shop early this morning, before any of you were up, and decided that this would be an ideal Christmas p...