Adullamite

On his last album John Lennon had a song which included the words:- "Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans...

At this time of year there are the annual jobs to be done, clean the sink, throw out rubbish and fill in the birthday dates on the new de...

While sitting in church, listening to a man with a tea towel on his head impersonating a shepherd talking about heavenly choirs, I found ...

The world returned to a semblance of normality today and I hoped to spend much time lying around like a slob.  However first thing I had ...

It is always satisfying to find presents that meet our requirements.  Books aplenty will always be acceptable in this house, and one niec...

  Happy Christmas to all my friends

The lass at the Tesco checkout told me how this was the usual Christmas crowd in today, all miserable!  'Tis the season of goodwill t...

With Christmas approaching, you may have missed that, the shopping centre had the usual donkey and sheep gathered for show.  No reindeer ...

I still think that 'Specsavers' sponsoring Scottish Referees was one of the great marketing moments in history.  Suggesting refe...

The day is dreich, rain much of the morning and little fun to be had although these two on the neighbours roof appear content.  I wandere...

Forcing myself out to the Saturday market for an urgent visit to Tesco, what kind of a fool forgets bread the day before? I found myself ...

Boris likes to compare himself with Pericles and Churchill.  Pericles the great Athenian leader, who caught the plague and died in the mi...

These are the people responsible for Boris's victory, the sheep! By the million they came out in their plastic macs and braved the...

I did the dirty deed and entered the rather quiet polling station and placed my cross in an appropriate box.  The pace had been steady, b...

Tuesday: Two days till we vote for the wrong government! From then on we will despair of the mistake, blame them for it, not us, and ens...

There is one clear error on the front of this book.  The xenophobic English refer to 'James I' even though the author himself s...

Another mouse trauma has arisen. While some have the joy of Boa Constrictors, Tarantula's and other poisonous beasts here in the col...