My new Oyster Card
London residents enjoy wonderful transport facilities for getting around the capital by bus, tram, underground and regular national rail. Services are frequent, use modern high-tech vehicles and...
View ArticleWaiting...waiting...
As I begin this post (at 1.41pm) I have an assurance from Amazon that delivery of my new Fibit fitness tracker will take place by 9.00pm today. 9.00pm? Surely it will come a lot sooner. I've been...
View ArticleDriving passion
I have loved driving all my life. I loved it even as a child, a passenger in the front next to Dad. (Mum and my little brother Wayne always sat in the back) I didn't pass my driving test first time,...
View ArticleMy new Fitbit Alta HR - first impressions!
I dare say some readers must be getting fed up with my in-depth posts on this fitness gadget! But look: fitness is important. It makes life extra-enjoyable. It prolongs active life (that's reminiscent...
View ArticleSo that's what I get up to when asleep!
One more Fitbit report, before covering some other things as my next holiday approaches. I've had my Alta HR for a week now. Its purpose was to get me doing more exercise - something I wanted to become...
View ArticleLoose Women
I was last a regular watcher of ITV's Loose Women at least ten years ago. It's a long-running daytime discussion show, primarily intended for savvy women, and features a changing panel of personalities...
View ArticleWhen I'm cleaning windows
My good friend Angie - who is a dab hand with her ukulele - doubtless knows the words and music to George Formby's mischievous song When I'm Cleaning Windows. You have to imagine Formby's rendition -...
View ArticleTilly in a Spitfire cockpit
I'm now on holiday, moving around in the West Country. And presently I'm in South Devon, staying for five nights at the Modbury Caravan and Motorhome Club Site, deep in the South Hams countryside. It's...
View ArticleI'll wear my feet out at this rate...
And has Project Fitness died a natural death, now that I'm no longer at home but on holiday? Not at all. You want some evidence? Well, Fitbit emailed me a Weekly Report the other day, quite unprompted....
View ArticleNight of the Queen Wasp
I'd seen her buzzing around earlier that day. Always the roof of my caravan. A big wasp. Well, there was nothing up there to interest a wasp! Just the roof hatches, and they were firmly shut. They had...
View ArticleThe end of an era
I've had to make up my mind that when I go on holiday it will always be impossible to blog on any kind of regular basis. The photography gets in the way. The hours needed to process my shots normally...
View ArticleGet ready for a new face
Where has my leisure gone? The time to do anything? (Like blogging) I returned from holiday on the 4th October, and will depart again in a week's time. In between I seem to have done nothing except...
View ArticleThe long, slow Grand National
Honestly, following the arcane twists and turns of the Brexit negotiations - which are at last coming to a decisive head - is like watching a horse race like the Grand National in slow motion. We all...
View ArticleThe new glasses
I picked up my new glasses this morning. They are very comfortable and - vitally - the varifocal lenses are pin-sharp. My goodness, all the things around me now look so very clear and distinct! This...
View ArticleBuyer's regret
Oh dear...I don't like my new glasses. Despite two of my friends thinking them fab, I am going to take them back to Specsavers straight away and choose another pair. Here's why. Look at this series of...
View ArticlePushing my luck, but keeping options open
The new glasses saga continues. Have you noticed how each new purchase - laptop, phone, whatever - gets agonised over on this blog? As if I'm obsessed by the trivial things of life, and blind to more...
View ArticleWithout a brass farthing
A curious thing happened two evenings ago. I completely ran out of coins. More than that, actually. I completely ran out of banknotes too. I had no tangible money at all. I was at a quiz, and after...
View Article123,456
In the grand scheme of things, this is trival. Still, it's not something seen every day, and I'm guessing it's rarely caught on camera! Yes, my car Fiona has done 123,456 miles. Actually, a bit more...
View ArticleJunking my CD collection
Now that I'm back home again - no more travelling planned until next April - I'm turning my attention to things I can do around my home. Those car-transmission loans from 2015 and 2016 rumble on, but...
View ArticleThe new BBC Sounds app
The BBC have launched a new radio app called BBC Sounds. It sits alongside the existing BBC iPlayer Radio app, but whereas iPlayer Radio gives you a list of what's currently on, or has recently been...
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