Hi Peeps, . Oh my goodness….Red Sky In The Morning, Sailors’ Warning. . That was what happened here this morning. A most beautiful sky, but what does it presage for us. . Everything is covered in frost this morning, and it feels like that includes myself! . The central heating is still programmed to switch [...]
Dec
10
2011
10
2011
Sep
28
2011
28
2011
What A Treasure!
Hey, . We are now at the midpoint of the week, but I am beginning to think that the promised period of Indian Summer may not be going to happen for us. . Yesterday was mostly cloudy and not too warm. . We did manage to have a longish walk but I started out with [...]
Aug
25
2011
25
2011
Those Were Good Days.
Hi, . Wow, I love the smell of toast in the morning….it smells like breakfast!!! . So, here we are again on yet another WET morning, so that’s a nice change from all of the other WET days we are having this year. Much more of this and I shall have to re-learn how to [...]
Aug
7
2011
7
2011
Hiroshima. Lest We Forget.
Hi, . There has just been a commemoration in Hiroshima, which was in remembrance of the 66th anniversary of the Atomic Bomb which was unexpectedly dropped upon that unlucky city by America at the end of WWII. It took place on August 6th, 1945 at 8.15am. . Hundreds of thousands were killed in the blast [...]
Jul
31
2011
31
2011
To The Beat Of A Sunday Drum.
Hi Peeps, . The madly here to welcome a Sunday. I suppose that it could be very annoying to some, but I love it, quintessentially British childhood memories there. . . In those far-off days of a simple sort of life, just after WWII, we were grateful for any that would relieve long and bland [...]
Jul
29
2011
29
2011
Do You Remember Me?
Hi, . How are you today. Come on, it has to be better today ‘cos it is a Friday once more! . Unfortunately the weather here has continued to be coldish and very grayish, which is a bit on the disappointing side given that we are at the end of July, which is the height [...]
May
21
2011
21
2011
Boys Will Play.
Hello Peeps. . Something a bit different….and nostalgic…. for you today. A glimpse of eroticism as it used to be in the old days. . Magazine began 57 years ago. It was de-rigueur for the boys of my age to secrete a few copies under their mattresses in order to fuel their and provide them [...]
Oct
13
2010
13
2010
Toilet Rolls Are The New Newspaper.
Hello, . So it is Wednesday, or as some of you Canadians out there would say, it’s . . When I awoke this morning, I found myself to be unwilling to actually leave my deliciously warm bed, although I was not sleepy at all. It is most definitely Winter again, and the older I get, [...]
Oct
1
2010
1
2010
A Sad Thursday.
Hi There, . What a sad day it was for us yesterday. One of our friends died last week from , after a short illness, and it was finally in the morning. It’s weird how it somehow seems irretrievably real at that point, even though it has been an actual fact for some days before. [...]
Sep
27
2010
27
2010
A Moment Out Of Time.
Hi, . Lying in bed this morning, feeling deliciously warm and not yet wanting to face the chill of getting up, I began thinking about outstanding moments in a life. The ones that stay clear and meaningful even decades later on. . One of mine took place in . . is a strange place, with [...]
Sep
24
2010
24
2010
What A Fabulous Resource From The BBC.
Hi, . Just thought I would share a great thing with you in case you have not found it yet. . The BBC has a fabulous site, which is about daily news from 1950 t0 2005. It is called ‘On This Day’. You can quickly enter any particular day and year that you are interested [...]
Sep
19
2010
19
2010
A Sunday To Spend.
Hi, . Happy to you, and I hope that your weekend is progressing very nicely. We have planned a nice meal for today which will be Aberdeen Angus fillet with potatoes, broccoli and a nice bottle of red wine which we bought for half price at Sainsburys. So that’s all OK then! . It is [...]
Sep
10
2010
10
2010
Biba Is Born Again.
Good Morning Peeps, . , Friday, . It does not get much better than that! . Yesterday turned out to be an excellent day for me because it became stunningly hot and sunny here. So good in fact, that we were motivated to get in the car, put the top down and go for a [...]
Aug
1
2010
1
2010
The Destruction Of An Icon.
Hey, . And so to the end of an era. Soon one of Gateshead’s iconic buildings will disappear forever and even the protestations of both Ridley Scott and Quentin Tarantino could not stop it from happening. . Have you guessed which building it is. You haven’t? Well, I shall put you out of your misery. [...]
Mar
6
2010
6
2010
Poppets, Bee Hive Hair And Radio Luxembourg.
Hey. How are you today! Perhaps you are having a Saturday lie in….and why not. I used to like them myself after a week of having to go to school or work every morning, but on the other hand I also used to feel that it was wasting precious free time too. . Sometime, in [...]
Mar
5
2010
5
2010
Sunshiny Day.
Hey, . Good day to you. . I don’t know what it is like where you are but I awoke to sunshine again today. Now I have instantly forgotten exactly how cold I have been for months and I feel very summery once again. Hopefully this is not another tease….hopefully this time it is the [...]
Feb
11
2010
11
2010
Thor’s Day.
Hey, . Today is Thursday. Or should I say ….Which sounds most amazingly like speaking in the Geordie | . I don’t know about you but I have always quite liked this particular day of the week. It always seems to have infinite possibilities, because for me it has never had any particular structure. I [...]
Jan
24
2010
24
2010
What An Excellent Way To Spend The Night.
Good Morning Peeps, . How do I find you today? . I feel fabulous….absolutely fabulous. I have just spent the whole night looking around Antique Shops. . Let me explain . For many years I used to have a recurring dream. I would be in a walled city, circular and made of stone, with an [...]
Dec
6
2009
6
2009
Things That We Fear.
Good Day, . This is a mellow morning. A gentle drizzle of rain outside and all the birds are squabbling over the bread on the wall as usual. . It just shows you what disgusting stuff they usually eat, if they are going to such lengths to get their bits of stale bread. Urgh, probably [...]
Nov
26
2009
26
2009
A Metrosexual Cat.
Hello Peeps, . What a fine day this is. Today, my painters, who have been working here for nearly a month, will be completely FINISHED! . Yeaaaaaaah!! . No more of that scary Nitromors stuff, no more dust from sanding down the stripped wood, no more eye watering paint smells, and no more living in [...]
Nov
21
2009
21
2009
Oi, I Know Who Your Mum Is!
Good morning to you, . I fear that I am being very contrary once more. . I t is now 3am on Saturday morning and this will be the first morning of the week when I do not have to be up before workmen arrive, so, theoretically, it is the night that I could have [...]
Nov
18
2009
18
2009
Singing To Cows.
Hello, Hello, . Ah, the surprises of each day. Today we are back with the low grey skies and the heavy rain. . I braved it, in order to dash outside and feed the somewhat tattered looking birds, cowering in the tree and around the chimneys. . It is amazing how guilty you can feel [...]
Nov
14
2009
14
2009
Everything Goes In Circles.
Hi, . It’s Saturday…as if you hadn’t noticed! . Now, long ago I told you all about the pains of getting up, ready, fed and with before the arrival of various sets of workmen. I also told you yesterday about how we were going to switch off the alarm and enjoy the fact that we [...]
Nov
3
2009
3
2009
Clearing The Tubes
Good morning to you, . Well I am in a remarkably excellent frame of mind this morning, given that we got to bed late last night and were up in the early hours again this morning. All to be bathed, combed, dressed, emptied and breakfasted, all far too frantically, all by some unfeasibly early hour, [...]
Nov
2
2009
2
2009
November Awaits.
Good Morning Peeps, . And so we reach yet one more Monday. Was your weekend a good one…I certainly hope so. . My life is about to become very restricted again, as we have the today to do a couple of weeks work, on the inside of the house this time! As I have said [...]
Oct
29
2009
29
2009
Sixty Years On.
Hello Folks, . Today began mysteriously. I woke to a real fog. There was nothing much to be seen outside at all, just the faintest outline of the big tree near the patio wall. . When it is like that it is not hard to imagine the feel of London, during the time of Jack [...]
Oct
10
2009
10
2009
The Milky Bar Kid.
Hello, hello, hello, . I know what you are thinking. Why do I say that three times, when just once, would do fine. What am I adding to the greeting by saying it that way. It is just overkill…and general showing off. . Well, words are free, and I am feeling generous! So come on, [...]
Oct
9
2009
9
2009
Spiders In My Hair.
Hey Peeps, Greetings to you all. . Hoping that life is still treating you kindly. (A timely word to you denizens of The Web who are looking at this post in your office. The highlighted import when you click on ‘The Animals’ is Very Loud music….which may not be a good idea in that particular [...]
Sep
11
2009
11
2009
A Real Penny Dreadful.
. . Dandruff, it was having such awful dandruff that let him down. Everything was going well right up to that last moment. . There we were, snuggled together on the front seat of his car and he was kissing me. . Oh God, What a marvellous kisser he was. Tongue halfway down my throat, [...]
Sep
2
2009
2
2009
What Did You Take To Bed?
Hi, . When I was a child I used to take two special things to bed with me every night. . One of them was a bear called Bear. . I understand that you may be somewhat disappointed by such a lack of creative thinking in the bear-naming arena, but I was actually quite an [...]
Aug
26
2009
26
2009
Queen Elizabeth II.
Hello Peeps, . I was going to tell you yet another tale of , but this morning, for some reason, I keep thinking of my mum. I possibly told you that she died earlier this year. . The death of a parent is extremely painful at first, but I think perhaps I have been lucky. [...]
Aug
24
2009
24
2009
Bad Shit In Amsterdam.
. Good morning my friend, . I agree with you, nothing much great about a Monday if you have to go to work again after a weekend of debauchery, or just a few quiet days doing nothing special. But you do have a bright side, there is another weekend in five days time. Isn’t it [...]
Aug
23
2009
23
2009
X Factor.
Hello. hello. hello. . . I am happy to say that I now have a reason to live for the next few months. . X FACTOR IS BACK!!!!!!!! It began tonight, and I have had my first addictive fix of Simon and his cohorts, along with the fun of those first few hapless people whose [...]
Aug
21
2009
21
2009
We Tattooed Ourselves.
Hello, . When I was a little kid, we used to sport our own semi- permanent tattoos. . It did not have to be permanent because we did it nature’s way. . It was different, it was temporary, and we felt that it definitely got us noticed. . When a cut-out shape was placed onto [...]
Aug
19
2009
19
2009
A Bed Of Roses.
Hello Peeps, . And the top of the morning to you all. I am lucky enough to have a nice sunny day here myself. . When I was watering my plants today, and feeding the birds their breakfast of left overs and prawn crackers, I was remembering those long ago, blisteringly hot summer days of [...]
Aug
17
2009
17
2009
What About Me?
Hi to you all. . Today is a gem, beautiful and very sunny. Most excellent. If there is any rain coming then I sincerely hope that it goes to you and not me! . I have an acquaintance in the place where I live and when we meet we always have a long chat. She [...]
Jul
23
2009
23
2009
Sondar The Treen.
Hey. . When I was a child we had a tortoise. He was called Sondar The Treen. This name was lifted from one of my brother’s Dan Dare comics. Sondar was a little alien who used to fly about while sitting on a saucer. He resembled our tortoise because he had a similar hard chin [...]
Jul
21
2009
21
2009
Delayed pleasure.
Hello peeps, . Today has not gone quite as I had hoped. My friend and I had an outing planned , in order to compensate ourselves for the Friday Night Fever debacle . . We had decided to go to visit Holy Island, also called Lindisfarne, which is known as the birth place of Christianity, [...]
Jul
20
2009
20
2009
Doppleganger
Good morning to you all, . Last night I slept really deeply. I went to bed at 12.30am and slept straight through to 9.45. This is very unusual for me to sleep so late for no reason . I did have a strange dream though. I dreamt I was walking down a street and passed [...]
Jul
19
2009
19
2009
Homecoming.
Good day to you, . This morning I was thinking about my brother, because it is about time I went to see him, and I remembered something from way back when we were small children. . He had fallen over and hurt his knee, some time before it was noticed that he had red lines [...]
Jul
17
2009
17
2009
Speaker’s Corner
Hey . Morning has broken….and what a morning ! . Rain is teeming down, running in the gutters with abandon, and the dark grey sky is so low that you could touch it. As I sit at the keyboard I can hear a swishing sound, as passing cars rush heedlessly over the rain soaked road. [...]
Jul
15
2009
15
2009
ABBA.
Hi to you, . Soon I will be going with a friend band and we are really looking forward to it. We were talking about what to wear and decided it would be fun to dress the way we did back in the ’70′s. The only good thing about becoming so much older is [...]
Jul
13
2009
13
2009
Strange Fruit.
Hi, . This morning I woke unfeasibly early again, but I was snug, and it was quite enjoyable to simply lie there next to a quietly sleeping Big H , just letting my mind drift past all sorts of disconnected memories and thoughts. . I remembered my father and various conversations that we had when [...]
Jun
27
2009
27
2009
New details about Michael Jackson’s death emerging.
Good morning everyone, – I received a comment this morning from a reader also called Michael, asking if I had seen the new details emerging about Michael Jackson’s death, so I googled them. It is pretty much what I imagined . The man was a perfectionist, and was no doubt working 100% to be beyond [...]
Jun
26
2009
26
2009
I Hate Crusts.
Greetings – And so the weekend beckons. I hope that you have something good in store . . At the moment I do not have anything special planned because Big H’s energy levels fluctuate a lot. Proven by the fact that I in the living room and black of the walls and ceiling. . I [...]
Jun
26
2009
26
2009
Michael Jackson Dies.
Hi, – Isn’t it strange. I was never a fan of Michael Jackson in a big way, but I still felt a shock when I heard he had died. . Taken just as a performer the man was excellent and the first time I saw him moonwalk it looked just like magic. . R.I.P. – [...]
Jun
25
2009
25
2009
NO NO NO
Hi Darlings, . ‘ Not so sunny today, and I hear that the weather will worsen soon. BOOOOOOOOO. . I arose a little later this morning, and did all the usual things, except for having Marmite on toast for breakfast. Very nice, but I do not feel an obsession coming on. . Then I made [...]
Jun
24
2009
24
2009
That’s Entertainment.
Hello darlings, . Did you read about the City of London Festival Street Pianos ? What an excellent idea. It seems that for about three weeks there will be 30 pianos placed in different locations around London and they will hopefully stimulate passing pedestrians to have a tinkle on the ivories. What an amazing idea. [...]
Jun
22
2009
22
2009
The importance of getting the name right.
HI, . Years ago I read in our local paper that they were thinking of printing a series of previously unpublished poems, written by local people. Did anyone want to submit their work? . As I had nothing better to do that day, so I acted upon a sudden good idea. I decided to send [...]
Jun
21
2009
21
2009
Good Morning Sunshine
Good Morning Darlings, . What a beautiful Monday morning it is today after fierce rain for most of the weekend. I love it when the sky is blue and gleaming from one side to the other. . When I went down to the living room and faced yesterday’s devastation, I was suddenly brought back to [...]
