I feel suitably stupid!  I told everyone that I had missed my first blogoversary a few days ago.  Well I hadn’t!
With all these 1st year birthdays around at the moment, it started me thinking.  How could I have been blogging as long as these people, who are my blogging mentors?   A search of my [...]

Happy 1st birthday to Kathy of the Junk Drawer

Not only is her blog one of the best and funniest around, she is a very lovely person, and  I am pleased to call her my blogging friend.

I was 15 and about to leave school and step out into the big wide world. It was usual for your mother or father to come to the school and meet with your ‘form’ teacher to discuss a job for you.
It was 1961 and very few people stayed on at school to take GCE’s, as [...]

Mark of worldwidetravelblog tagged me with this ‘Four Things’ meme.
Here I go, opening myself up to everyone - again. You’ll all end up knowing me better than I know myself!
My ‘four things’ answers are:-
Four jobs I’ve had
* Embroidery designer (for theatrical costumes)
* Office worker (Publishing)
* Hair dresser
* Graphic Designer - Self employed
Four movies I [...]

On July 21st I had been blogging for one year, and it passed me by, without even a doughnut! To make things worse, I also missed my 100th post. This is my 106th post and I feel thoroughly cheated now.
To improve my mood somewhat, I was given this lovely award for [...]

Mo came across this photograph of me, that I haven’t seen for many years. You can enlarge it if you so wish - though why would you?
It sparked of a trip down memory lane. The photo is of me waiting for the train that would take me to London. As my guitar [...]

Today, I was feeling a little down in the doldrums. No particular reason, other than I couldn’t think of anything to blog about. I was even thinking of closing down one of my blogs. It has just been ‘one of those days’.
I was browsing and reading blogs, thinking “Why can’t I write [...]

Get a Voki now!

Today, we went out to buy a drop leaf table and chairs for our kitchen.
We set off for Ikea in Leeds. Nowhere is close to us. We always have at least an hours drive. Leeds may even be further. I don’t drive, and have a tendency to get in a car and arrive [...]

I was going to write a pleasant post about having our central heating installed, but I haven’t been able to pull out even one, remotely humourous, part in this four day, living nightmare!
With every door and window in the house wide open all day, every day, with rain and wind blowing through the house, we [...]