A week after my last blog post I received a letter in the post, inviting me to attend a routine mammogram at the end of April, just when lovely Spring was beginning, a couple of miles away in an Asda car park.  Asda?  Never before … Continue reading Spring Fever (and not in a good way)

(A British pub in the 1960's. Pete and Dud are seated at their favourite table.  Two pints of beer are in front of them.) Alright Pete? Satisfactory Dud, satisfactory. What you been up to lately then? Well, I’ve been reading Dud; reading this here amazing … Continue reading Pete and Dud do my Book Review

A sense of choral duty compelled me to go along to a chorister’s house the other day to help make bunting.  Choir No.2 (as opposed to the other one, where I’ve sentenced myself to singing a solo) also has an upcoming summer concert (where the … Continue reading When Making Bunting isn’t really about Making Bunting

Last Monday I landed myself right in it.  I trundled along to the big choir I belong to, the one with roughly 80 members (the choir I used to dread going to) and put myself forward to sing a solo at the upcoming summer concert.  … Continue reading THIS ISN’T ME!

I recently took part in a family-made video; filmed to celebrate a milestone birthday.  I wonder where that figure of speech came from?  This is one of the hazards of blog writing.  You start out with some sort of topic in mind and then find … Continue reading Why Movie Stars are (mostly) Thin

I’m in a colouring frenzy again.  After months of not picking up my two Johanna Basford books, the bug hit again when I chanced upon a wonderful Korean artist named Daria Song, via Instagram.  This is another reason I stopped colouring because, weirdly, looking at … Continue reading An Adult Colours-In

(SPOILERS) Oh, what a joy it is to be lucky enough to reach a certain age; and to have reached it alongside ‘old’ Luke Skywalker.  Mark Hamill is 66; to most juvenile journalists that qualifies him admirably for the role of ancient, jaded Jedi Master, … Continue reading Star Wars: The Last……Blog Post of 2017

Crushed, as I currently am, aged 56 ¾, by the heavy psychological weight that is the sense of my own mortality, I have yet found time for Yuletide jinx: **** The Christmas Card Dilemma Every Christmas I average about 20 cards (the receiving of) – … Continue reading Festive Frivolities

IN MEMORIAM Death No.1 (the small child) My first acquaintance with Death; the first life-changing meeting that is, was when my second child died at four days old, twenty seven years ago.  In his case Death couldn’t wait to jump in and make an unwelcome … Continue reading Lessons in Death

Like many Western celebrities before her, Sue Perkins became instantly enamoured of the Indian spiritual way of life, during her telly trip down the Ganges (of which I saw only one instalment) - particularly when it came to Death.  According to Sue, we’ve got Death … Continue reading ASMR