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The only adventurous thing I did this winter was to take this photograph of the first snow fall on January 14 at 3.45 am.  It wasn't muc...

When you live in Britain, you must not horse around  with comestibles from the Supermarkets.  You have to hold your horses  before you pay f...

For  the last week I have been caught up in a major makeover project - to transfer paraphernalia from this back room ..... The  Back  Ro...

What a good start for 2013.  We have been accorded the status of   Best Value Country  in today's Daily Mail in an article by Jill Reill...

To quote Charles Dickens in "A Tale of Two Cities"  (1859),   the year 2012  : ".... was the best of times, it was the wors...

As part of the treatment for his battered discs and his osteo-arthritis, the spouse has been doing his walking exercise - about 2 kms each d...

9.  With the Arab nations more or less emasculated by this time and the breakup of the USSR following Gorbachov's Glasnost and Perestroi...