This Is WHY!
Around the world it is the same. Animals are our saviours. When we let them be 🙂 For the first time in 25 years (apart from my beard-y sons!!!) I don’t have a single animal in my home !
Read More“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Around the world it is the same. Animals are our saviours. When we let them be 🙂 For the first time in 25 years (apart from my beard-y sons!!!) I don’t have a single animal in my home !
Read MoreBefore I get accused AGAIN of Bestiality – as I once was by a psycho yt commenter because I have a dolphin in my picture – the phrase MY Lover is very prevalent in the West Country of England. Scotland – Hen GeordieLand – Pet Lincolnshire – Me Duck West Country – Me Luvver They […]
Read MoreI’m in the middle of engraving a slate roof tile that we salvaged from the stable restoration. It’s lasted almost 200 years already. Hopefully it will last many more :o)
Read MoreIpomoea : (A Wexford Case) Ruth Rendell. Roxane’s shoes. The leaf was not from a wild plant but from the cultivated climber Ipomoea rubro-caerulea, the Morning Glory. I’m in Distraction Action here ! One of my favourite Ruth Rendell Inspector Wexford books is the one in the image above. I’ve planted and grown ipomoea/convolvulus in several homes. […]
Read MoreThe first time that I stayed in the Savoy Hotel was with my brother’s gorgeous wife. Their daughter was about a year old. Niece-y is now 17. Wh-aaaa-t? Anyhoo. Sis and I went a-wandering down the Strand and found ourselves in a side street with John Inman and another walking towards us. I said…Hello, Mr […]
Read MoreGB : A Blast From the Past GB : Another Whatever GB : Being #FAKE about 23rd Aug 2019 When on the late shift, I’d finish at The George Hotel around 1am. Totally knackered and driving the car above home. Windows WIDE open. CD on, MAXVOL. It (the CD) always started on this song. The […]
Read MoreYesterday – when I was put in kitchen isolation (actually, someone else took over puppy duty. I might’ve been slightly Sarah Bernhardt there!) I had the chance to join a live chat that was actually very pleasant. Well – I didn’t get banned or told to “Just Fuck Off, then.” I was asked if I […]
Read MoreThat’s what I said to our builders a year after moving into this house. Before – this room and that chimneybreast had f-ugly 1950’s beige tiles all over it and a modern electric 3-bar fire. Rip it ALL out! Behind the wall we found the recess and the YorkStone Lintel. So I HAD to HAVE […]
Read MoreStephen Gately Stephen Gately was Boyzone’s other lead singer after Ronan. What was not revealed when the band became famous and every teenage girl’s dreams come true was that SG was gay and married a man. He died in Majorca of…..natural causes aged 33 (!) Take that to the bank and make it evil ? […]
Read MoreJust my humble opinion but….. MELTDOWN :o) #
Read MoreI’m a little over the teenage age (!) but I still love Boyzone. I’d put Ronan Keating’s voice up there with Robbie Williams/Gary Barlow et al. OMG – I had to rewind and change to slowmo. In the first 16 seconds I thought I saw late Mel Smith, Harry Hill and Graham Norton. Did I? […]
Read MoreWhichever way I look at it. Whichever way I try to avoid it. The uncomfortable truth is that by Monday our beloved dog will no longer be with us. We have had 12 amazing years with the gorgeous creature. And I will be forever grateful for that. He is now half paralysed and today is […]
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