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I regularly get things through my front door, urging me to look at the wonderful deals presently available from the likes of Sky or Amazon. They make out that my life is a bore without their packaged...
View ArticleFAB
Now let's have no nonsense. Cars are wonderful. Cars are important. A car can be your best friend, taking you here and there in safety and style, in all weathers. My own car, Fiona, has done this for...
View ArticleThe last few days before the General Election
Still no sense of any coming Moment of Destiny in my neck of the woods. All the local contenders - Conservative, Labour, LibDem and Green - have popped leaflets through my front door, so I do know...
View ArticleRenewing my Driving Licence
Last week I received a form from the DVLA, telling me that my Driving Licence was going to expire shortly - its ten-year validity was nearly up. The two alternative procedures for tackling this both...
View ArticleI was rather fortunate!
More on my registration plate purchase nine days ago. I now think I was lucky to get a half-decent plate (SC10 FAB), and particularly fortunate to pay only Ā£250 for it. In my usual way, I decided to...
View ArticleThe Knickers of Destiny
Let is turn from trivial matters to an event of National Importance. Yes, it's the day of the General Election, and I think that it will turn out to be a day to remember for a long time to come, if...
View ArticleAn unexpectedly good result - now the fallout
I wasn't wrong in guessing that the night following the General Election would be momentous. An unexpectedly good result for the Conservatives. The way is now open for progress on many issues, both...
View ArticleNot much of a likeness
My new Driving Licence arrived very quickly - only four days after trekking to Haywards Heath Post Office for a fresh photo, and a counter application, it popped through my front door. There was only a...
View ArticleStaying away for the New Year
I don't think I've done this for forty years - I'm going away for the New Year. And I won't be driving - I shall be a backseat passenger in Jo and Clive's car. After a few days of photo work after...
View ArticleShame on me
I find myself being urged to feel ashamed every day, and for many different reasons. I have only to turn on my radio or TV to hear or see somebody having a go at people like me. We are all lumped...
View ArticleClosing soon
Not a week ago, I was in Debenhams department storeĀ at Eastbourne. This is one of the Debenhams branches which is going to close under the overarching rescue scheme to keep the company viable. Like the...
View ArticleChristmastime and Lucia
Let me say at once that it's very pleasant at Christmastime to exchange greetings and smiles with the people I know and like. It's the darkest time of the year; the days are the shortest, the nights...
View ArticleHOW much?
It's said that a Yorkshireman looks after his brass, meaning the pennies in his pocket. There's a rumour that pubs throughout Yorkshire are losing money because they dare not increase what they charge...
View ArticleGavin and Stacey's Barry
I watched the Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special on BBC1 on Christmas Day night while at my friend Alice's house. I didn't really want to; I'd never sat through any of the episodes that made this South...
View ArticleLove Actually
Believe it or not, I'd never seen this 2003 Christmas classic until last night, when ITV screened it. I'd wanted to see Love Actually ever since September, when I heard The Glasgow Love ThemeĀ (a...
View ArticleGoing boldly - if not baulked by scrap metal
It's real. President Trump has signed into being the US Space Force. Previously it was part of the US Air Force, but now, from 20th December, it has its own separate identity. And to start with, as...
View ArticleVeganuary
I was listening to LBC yesterday evening and Clive Bull was revisiting the arguments and claimed benefits for going vegan during January. Being LBC, it was a phone-in conversation with all sides of the...
View ArticleMy two nights away over New Year's Eve
In my 18th December post Staying away for the New Year I described how I had dared myself to accept an invitation to go down to Lymington in Hampshire for two nights. I feared that, deprived of my...
View ArticleMy new Fitbit Inspire HR
New year, new Fitbit. I've just bought myself a Fitbit Inspire HR to replace my Alta HR. It's a natural upgrade, basically a fitness tracker of the same kind, but the latest version. The old Alta HR,...
View ArticleDolls
In my wider family are two great-nieces. One (Matilda, aka Tilly) is now six, the other (Ruth) has just turned two. I don't buy proper presents for anyone in my wider family except these two very...
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