My time with the Greeks of Paros in The Cyclades
I left you for a couple of weeks with a picture of my shadow in my garden on a sunny day whilst I took a trip to the small and relaxed Greek island of Paros in The Cyclades. Well my…
Summertime and I’m off on my holidays.
Hot Dayby wolfiewolfgang I am off on my holidays for couple of weeks where I plan to do not a lot in the sun so you will have to live without this blog until I get back. This is the…
Will I survive sitting on a beach in Greece?
I have never done it before and I don’t know what it will be like but here goes. Yes, I am finally going on a holiday where there will not be much to do except sit in the sun, sit…
Dull days won’t pull me down.
So just look at it! The view from my study window. The prehistoric mound is lush with moisture, drizzly rain acts as a miserable screen to what should be a beautiful English Spring day and a solitary crow is flying…
£500,000 to meet Prince Andrew? You must be kidding!
Those royal brides! What are they like! Well, I mean Sarah Ferguson of course, the so-called Duchess of York. I don’t mean Diana who is now in Heaven with Mother Theresa, enough has been said about her already or Sophie,…
Whatever Love Is…….
Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga It was one of those phrases that still chills me when I think of it. That now infamous interview that Prince Charles gave with the then Lady Diana Spenser on the announcement of their engagement…
Bluebells and Foxes and good news from the hospital
Late May in East Sussex, England, came into its own this weekend with hot weather at last. I had just had good news about my vocal chords too from the throat surgeon – I don’t need an operation as my…
Don’t underestimate wallflowers
It has been a chilly Spring here in England and all those long-awaited bulbs arrived late but many of them flowered together and lasted far longer than usual. The same was true of the tree blossoms….this year my cherry tree…
Goodbye Vermont Yankee and hello Green Mountain windmills
As part of my growing interest in America’s second smallest state, I see in the papers today that Vermont has announced that it is going to start buying some of its electricity from neighbouring New Hampshire’s wind turbines because it…
Those Green Mountain Boys
I have been thinking about Vermont all week wondering why no one who lives in the U.S.A.’s second smallest state ever looks at this website. Vermont is the only American state that has never looked at this daily blog and,…