I hope some of you know a thing or two about plants, because I’m going to ask you a gardening question.  No, don’t run away, I need your help.  Well, I don’t actually need your botanical help but I would like your comments anyway, so please continue reading.
Mo and I have been planting some …. [...]

I’ve arrived!

I won’t bore you with all the details but a new support chap did, in half an hour, what should have been done in the first place.  I am thrilled to tell you (with my flowers) that I am finally at my new cyberhome!  Better still.  They have now made beetle-blog my main domain [...]

For those that haven’t read parts one and two, and would like to, here are the links: Part one – Part two
During all the trauma of the accident, Jeanette and Sidney also had to cope with the fact that Britain was at war.  Sidney was not called to fight as he was in a reserved [...]

It’s Mo’s birthday today and she got a few nice gifts, including these lovely flowers.

I know it’s usually Kathy’s ‘What’s That’ guessing posts, or even Jenn Thorson’s ‘Whatsit‘ post but I couldn’t pass this one up.  This is a gift Mo received today, from our sister, granny grimble.  I couldn’t fathom out what it was, [...]

It was March 15th 1969 – My big day.  Everything had gone according to plan. The house was a buzz of busyness and excitement.  One sister did my nails, another my makeup, and my dress hung on the wardrobe door in readiness.  Today I would find out if my dressmaking skills were good enough.  Would [...]

Late one night, back in the mid sixties, I saw a TV programme and it caught my attention. A woman was singing and there was something about the song that really tugged at me. I had never heard this type of music before, or seen singers like the three that this programme featured. [...]