H fixed the fan, a drop of oil on the bearings.  It's good being married to an engineer, well, to this particular engineer ( Read more... )

In Britain We Queue

There was an item in our local News recently that language students visiting the Isle of Wight would be told about queueing, how & why.  & about time too.  Now if the language schools would also teach them how to behave on buses - no yelled conversations with their friends in adjacent seats, or the other end of the bus, ( Read more... )

Friday Roundup

Sub-Saharan Africa, usually subject to drought & desertification, is flooded.  In some places just before the annual harvest, which is Not Good.  Often a harvest would be sufficient for people to live on for only part of the year until the next harvest, when/if it came.  This time they'll need food aid, & seeds when the waters ( Read more... )

'Twas on a Monday Morning
    (I got on & wrote this blog!)

It would appear that I hadn't sorted directing you to some of my photos in the previous blog - so try this.  Thanks, Kitten.   Feedback on this matter would be appreciated - like did it work, could you see them?  Meanwhile aujour d'hui c'est Lundi.  WooHoo!  I really am going to do some ( Read more... )

Meeting and Doing.

The Together meeting yesterday was interesting.  Encouraging too for the Support worker who travelled over from the Isle of Wight.  He got all sorts of ideas, including how to lobby for funding!   Actually we all said that one of the Good Things about Together - or any form of Support Group - is that you realise that it isn't ( Read more... )