Miscellaneous Musings

In the last few weeks I have visited several of England's famous chapels and cathedrals. Local to home is Kings College Chapel in Camb...

Recently we've consolidated our media services, saving around £20 a month, but not without some pain. We had TV and calls from Sky, pho...

There is a famous poem by Ted Hughes about the return to the UK from Africa of the swift with this extract: "They’ve made it aga...

May 1st 2012 was quite a day.  Just after midnight my niece gave birth to her first child - a baby girl. At around nine o'clock my own...

Last week there was a note in one of my Facebook groups: my old English master, from grammar school days back in the 1960s, had died at the ...

Whenever I buy coffee at an outlet like Costa, Cafe Nero or Starbucks I seem to get given the coffee in a daft saucer which has an off-cen...

These two pictures are taken at the same place (Clovelly post office in N.Devon) just about 60 years apart. In the first picture I am about ...