Adullamite

In spite of dreich weather, thick overcast clouds dampened the streets and the hearts of many this morning, in spite of this my delivery arr...

  Woman's Work   The JOY continues. I awoke with the Larks this morning, or at least the Blackbirds, Pigeons and Rooks.  I could not sl...

This week will be a good one.  I can tell. For a start, I woke at 5:45 this morning, I was up by 6, and soon I had been round Sainsburys and...

     

via GIPHY It has been one of those weeks, one where there was much to be done and little actually got done.  The shops were visited, foolish...

    18th November 1916 was the last official day of the 'Battle of the Somme.'  The battle cost around 400,000 casualties, that is, ...

    Technology, like spelling, has always been a problem for me.  At school, aged a mere 5 years, I had learned that two halfpennies made on...

  The sky was gray, the temperature a high 50f when I took the empty glass bottles up to the reycle centre.  Had I got tuppence on each I co...

 

    Scotland qualifying, the hard way as always, for the Euro's last night was a welcome change from the mass of bumf that fills the scr...

Because of the virus a shortened Remembrance event was held today at the War Memorial.  Around 20 or so people attended.  One man led, the p...

The 10th of November 1917 saw the official end of the 3rd Battle of Ypres, often referred to as 'the Battle of 'Passchendaele.' ...

  Excuse me not joining in the celebrations re the new 'vaccine.' I am of course glad a start has been made but the question is can ...

    The pandemic, which you may have heard about, has interfered with all aspects of life today.  The annual Remembrance services held ar...

  As you know, the other day I got an email from 'Waterstones' informing me that I could lose my £10 voucher if I did not use it by ...

  Selfie It was as I watched a train of 150 or so doubled up containers leave the bridge at Fort Madison, Iowa, last night that I realised s...

The news of a month long 'Lock Down' brought out the people this morning.  I noticed Sainsburys car park busier than usual, the Barb...

The other night, the clouds having departed, I saw Mars close to the Moon.  Rushing for the camera I wasted timme trying to get a decent sho...