Miscellaneous Musings

For the last few days, my wife has had an old college friend staying with us. We visited a few local National Trust properties and manag...

For the last 2 days we have had breakfast in the garden. It has been hot lately - unusually hot for the UK. It was good to be able to sit ...

We had some visitors who arrived at our local museum in this old charabang coach. This is it parked outside the windmill. The word charaba...

Every day we get jackdaws on our bird table. They are quite big birds, but quite fun. This one is busy tucking in to kitchen scraps. We no...

For a start, I was one of the many millions in the UK who did not vote for Mrs May (UK Prime minister) and the Conservatives. It looks like...

Many many years ago I attended Salcombe Boy's Club. This was back in the 1950s when I was still very young. We played indoor sports foll...

Our laurel hedge in our front garden needs cutting several times a year to keep it in check. It makes a nice barrier, but we don't wan...