Retirement:After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Walmart. Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring...
Today, as you will know, it is 50 years since the Aberfan Disaster which gripped the nation in mourning. At that time I was busy preparing our...
A businessman on his deathbed called his friend and said, "Bill, I want you to promise me that when I die you will have my remains cremated."...
48mm since Thursday morning, a trifle damp. It has started the spring running again so I have been able to re-fill the two 200 litre tanks that I...
Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:1. The bandage was wound around the wound.2. The farm was used to produce produce.3....
I really like the Sir Cumference drawing.But....While stitching a cut on the hand of a 75 year old farmer, whose hand was caught in the...
LEXOPHILIA• How does Moses make tea? Hebrews it.• Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!• A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are...
No conclusions drawn CanadianLori, just an observation on differing cultures. It certainly prompted discussion which made a change from Brexit.
The inventor of predictive text has died.His funfair will be hello on Sundial."DOG PERSON"TO TRULY APPRECIATE THIS STORY"Stay!"I pulled...
When Christine was a Primary School Teacher the best classroom pet she ever had was a rat, the children could handle it without either getting...
We have lived here for 30 years and when we came this was just an A road then the built a new link to the M1 500 yards up the road. It is 1900hrs...
I have used nematodes from Nemasys for three years with great success on my potatoes.
Potted up 78 leeks, that should see us through. We know quite a few people who will be pleased with anything we send.
I don't know if I mentioned it here but a couple of months ago when I was up in the yard two airgun pellets hit a tree about 5 yards away. The...
There has been a lot of political and media pressure for the Redskin owner drop the name of his team. Redskins finally drops name of there team:...
I'll stick to my habit of over 40 years and keep wearing the safety wellies and boots.
I watch quite a few YouTube Allotmenteers and it never ceases to amaze me how many are working away in what I would call pumps or tennis shoes but...
We had 18mm of rain after 04.00pm yesterday. It started just as I was covering a newly planted row of cabbage with fleece to keep the rabbits...
One of the few useful and educational things that they did on Top Gear was to test the relative inflammability of petrol and brake fluid. They...
I don't know too much about roses because our land is hot, sandy and acid. The roots are quite near the surface and they throw up shoots all over...
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