We have an elderly widowed neighbour, who I occasionally help out with specific technical problems. Like many women with grown-up children these...
A film presently being shown on 5Spike is the 1959, "S.O.S. Pacific," starring Richard Attenborough and Pier Angeli. I liked it as it featured my...
I had a Walkman I "found" it in the back of a drawer a couple of years ago. Hadn't been used in nearly twenty years, but I'd left the batteries in...
They don't make stuff like they used to.This is my cassette tape deck I bought in 1972.I've changed the belts but other than that it works...
Similar. But drying out. Birds are starting the use the new feeder. It's taken them a week. But when you're a bird, "you trust nothing and nobody."
I watch some of my many "film noir" recordings now and again, when there's not a lot on TV. There's more contemporary favourites too. Like this...
I can't say I've been too enamoured of a lot of dramas on TV lately.Some fall within "My Laws of Television." I posted on Urban Dictionary ten...
I watched the USA Superbowl last night. A long time fan. Our youngest son played American football at amateur level. We followed him around the...
I watched a pretty emotive film the other night on TV, titled "You Before Me" it features Emilia Clarke, "she of the articulating eyebrows," worth...
Quite warm and sunny, all trace of snow gone.Could have gone to golf this morning, but stayed up 'til near 4.00 am, watching the Superbowl,...
I'm half way through "They Shall Not Grow Old," as you say very graphic. Those who make war documentaries in the current "snowflake era" would shy...
Hi and welcome. Make a long term plan if you intend to stay in the house for a long time. Don't try to tackle it all at once.Start with the bit...
Our daughter from the age of five, we called "Lizzy-drip," I thought it was after the name of a kid's TV programme she liked. But my wife says...
In a conversation with my wife today, this came up.Does anyone out there ever occasionally use certain words within family conversations, which...
Clear blue skies but still freezing. Little snow has melted except where the lawn is close to our York stone path which will absorb a bit of heat...
I'm not on social media, so no facebook, twitter, instagram or whathaveyou. But if someone posts a link on any messageboard to some comment or...
I had one with a bright yellow handle I bought from Wilko for £1 at the end of the year before last..dunno what happened to it!I have a theory,...
Snow still with us because it's still freezing, though it's tryimg to thaw in places on the lawn where it meets the path which the sun has...
I mentioned the same thing earlier. I bought two trowels from Wilko so that I'll have one to use until I find the other one.
Great film on C5 late last night starring Emilia Clarke, with the "articulated eyebrows."Seems to have a cult following. 25M hits on this one...
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