That's the last of the wall painting done.  Well, ok, there is a bit of 'edging' still needs doing, particularly at the ceiling edge of some walls, though knowing how often people look up I might just leave that!  Then there are a few bits on the cream walls that need touching up ( Read more... )

Ever since Jimmy Saville died and the skeletons began to fall out of his erstwhile tightly-locked cupboard, sexual abuse, particularly of children, has become News ( Read more... )

There, Dear Reader, I was so busy telling you about our trip to Chester yesterday that I forgot what, to many in the Principality, was the Most Important Event - The Match.  As regular Readers will know, we are possibly the antithesis of Sports' Fans, but we do keep an eye on what's going on ( Read more... )

Dear Reader, I gather the pictures I thought I posted in the previous entry didn't actually show up. Sorry about that.  'Normal Service', ie: no photos, will be resumed immediately.  Wot We Did On Our Holiday, with pictures, will take a little longer*.  Darn, I shall have to make notes before I forget what we did ( Read more... )

Once upon a time Wales was the land of the oval ball.  Everyone played rugby.  That is, all the men and boys played rugby.  And they sang before and during matches.  In harmony.  Back in the seventies they had a national team to be reckoned with.  They had supporters ad hoc choirs to be reckoned with too.  No longer ( Read more... )

You know the UK voted (mostly) to Leave the UK, Dear Reader.  Understandably many of the other EU leaders are Fed Up with us, and even more Fed Up that we're hanging around not actually leaving yet.  Apparently Nigel Farrage (who is an MEP for some part of England) turned up at the European Parliament as usual yesterday, only to have the guy in ( Read more... )

Heigh ho!  The long summer evenings are here and the children are full of energy even after a busy day at school.  So some parents let them play out on the street, which means that some of them tend to congregate at 'our' corner.  It's probably the furthest they're allowed to go ( Read more... )

Actually, it isn't.  Some of it is due to brain chemistry being a bit off, or very off, but there you are.  How are you supposed to think straight when the organ which does the thinking is in some way faulty?  I mean, you wouldn't expect someone with a broken leg, even with a broken leg set in plaster or one of those metal scaffoding things, to run ( Read more... )

Turns out that Hurricane Barney was mainly wind.  *Insert your own 'just like some men' comment here!*  It rained during the afternoon but Barney hit around 4pm, by which time the rain was over and the wind blew, and blew.  Apparently 90mph gusts were measured off the Needles, which is kinda near here.  It's over now, our roof appears to still be ( Read more... )

Did you see the blue moon last night, Dear Reader?  When I looked out, around 11pm, it was more goldeny than blue.  Had I looked out around moonrise (about 8.30pm here) it might have appeared more pinky.  But then, we know what the term Blue Moon means, don't we?  If you've forgotten try looking at the first para in yesterday's entry ( Read more... )