And after every vote was counted - Portsmouth South has it's first Labour MP ever.  He's a good guy, a local councillor and involved with his ward (not this one.)  Here's hoping he makes as good an MP ( Read more... )

Grace, the cotton cardigan, is coming on.  By dint of some, possibly inadvisably applied, maths and a bit of fudging it's now waist length - the sides and back are knit in one piece to the armholes, so while this might not sound like much in the way of progress actually it is.  Meanwhile even with the weather being unseasonably chilly for May it is ( Read more... )

It's the last edition of this year's series of Springwatch tonight.  Pooh!  It's been interesting, informative and entertaining, sometimes gruesome, possibly in that order - the BBC at its best.  Apparently the website will be up and running for a long time yet, so we can engage in various citizen science projects etc.  That's been the past three ( Read more... )

We've been enjoying this year's season of Springwatch on the BBC.  Based this year at the RSPB reserve at Minsmere, Suffolk, they've been broadcasting the perennial bluetits - have the nine nestlings fledged yet?  Wait and see, or go look on the website or red button!  They also have nests of bull finches, gold finches, nightingales, reed warblers ( Read more... )

Dear Milkman, if you want us to answer the door and actually pay you then you have to make it sound as if there is someone there at the door awaiting answer.  Do not just flip the letterbox once, the wind does that and we don't get up to answer it!Darn, that'll be another week before he comes again, flips the letterbox, then pushes the bill through ( Read more... )

The TV Repairman came.  Fortunately he'd had the courtesy to ring me in the morning to say he'd be along between three and six pm.  So I was able to go out, do a bit of shopping, order some more organic veg, have lunch etc.  Now if he'd said between four and six, or even five and six, I'd also have gotten round Lidl.  As 'tis that particular ( Read more... )