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A Merry Merry Christmas to you, . What can I say to you on such a special morning except that …. and please do imagine me saying it with glittering tinsel round my head, a sticky glass of Buck’s Fizz in my hand, and a half empty box of Belgian chocolates nearby! . I am [...]

Hi, . Oooh, it is bloody freezing this morning. . I had one of my very early wake-up mornings , and eventually had to get up at about 4.30am, because I got sick of lying in bed staring at the night. . It was probably my own fault this time because I got a bit [...]

Good Morning Peeps, . That is just an everyday greeting of course, which has nothing whatever to do with the sort of day that we are having up here. . It is nine o’clock am, and I still need to have the living room light on in order to be able to read comfortably. I [...]

Hello, hello, . I am writing to you from a very cold, but still sunny place, which is about the best that we can wish for at this time of year. . The one good thing about it is that the crows are now beginning to make a noise in the evenings, as they gather [...]

Good Morning Peeps, . And so here I am again, in a somewhat . Sitting here writing a post in the early hours of the morning, with only the sound of a slight smattering of rain against the windows to keep me company. . It is a cold four o’clock in the morning ….. well [...]

Hey, . What an amazing start to a new week. We all awoke to hazy blue skies and sunshine, like a faded photo of a hot summer’s day. . The forecast says that the temperature will be very high this week , the highest for about the last 25 years or so. Now, won’t that [...]

Good morning Peeps, . So, now the holiday is done and the world takes over again….stuff like work and shopping! Still, a day off is definitely nice while it lasts. . Today Big H was up before eight, to attend to his morning medications, and I was left in bed by myself….whoaaah, scary stuff! > [...]

Hello Again, . Congratulations on having the luxury of a before you….and sorry if yours includes going to work! Back in the day, I used to adore waking up on a Saturday morning and then suddenly realising that I could lie there a bit longer if I wanted too, it was like suddenly being let [...]

Hi, . Well, here it is, me writing a post at 4.30am. I just could not sleep last night, so after lying sleepless for about an hour and a half I got up again and made myself a Warburton’s Potato Pancake and a of Lapsang. . As I have read all the books we got [...]

Hi. . Greetings from a land of sunshine….no, I kid you not! . I have to tell you that I got pretty pissed off this morning when the post arrived, well it didn’t just suddenly arrive by magic or by Owl Post or something equally esoteric….the postman brought it ! And it was very very [...]

Hi, . Well, here I am once more, prowling about the house . . I did go to bed just after twelve, but then did the old thing of lying there wide-eyed as the hours passed slowly by. Although it was at least snug and warm in bed, I had to leave it eventually because [...]

Hi Folks, . So beckons. . It is not a great morning weather-wise today, as it is gray gray and more gray. Yesterday came as a disappointment after all of that sun and heat on Sunday, which now seems to have been a one-off,  as the more usual rubbish weather has quickly resumed. . I [...]

Hi, . Good morning to yourself. And so we all begin a new week, all untouched as yet! . It is still the usual here, with grey skies and if not rain, then the definite threat of rain because of slow-moving low over the UK.. I went out to this morning and was surprised to [...]

Greetings to you all, . Oh, what a beautiful  morning, Oh what a….. . It is truly in the North today. . The sky is a blazing blue framing an incandescently bright sun….and the church bells are going bonkers. Our whole world is . . Although it was not a very bright afternoon yesterday, Big [...]

Hi, . There has been very dramatic weather today, during this unusual heat wave we are experiencing. . At about 2pm today the Gatwick Airport control tower was reportedly struck by lightning. This caused a temporary failure of the ground control systems, which resulted in there being flight suspensions for a short period, and possibly [...]

Hi Peeps, . What a beautiful morning it was today. . I arose early to find brightness and sunshine, which has now degenerated back into greyness and rain, but at least you don’t have time to get bored with the weather up here. . Talking about being bored, it was most exciting seeing the effects [...]

Hi Peeps, . . I spent Friday night in my usual fashion. Watching American Idol. Not as good as our British X Factor programme….but much better than nothing. . Did you watch it yourself. Did you see the pretty Scotty win the whole thing. . . Well, now to the clever bit. I was completely [...]

Hi Peeps, . Well, you know the saying ‘I Love New York’….well ‘I Love Friday’, and I get to a far more often than I can ever expect to get to New York. And to paraphrase Charles Dickens, being satisfied with the amount you have leads to contentment. . Having said that, I actually do [...]

Hi, . So here I am, up in the early hours . It is three o’clock in the morning and all is well. . Don’t ask me why but I just suddenly woke up and could not settle again. It is no good fidgeting about and waking Big H up, so I decided to make [...]

Hey Folks, . So here we are again, meeting on yet another . . Yesterday was amazingly warm and the sun shone industriously the whole day long. Big H felt energetic enough to get out and strim the edges of everything, so now we are all neat and tidy. . He rewarded himself afterwards with [...]

Hi, . Sorry the post is a bit late today but we were up early for the hospital visit. . Big H does not look forward to the ones like today at all. Apparently the procedure is not at all enjoyable, because your head gets fixed in position and then the headpiece is fitted tight [...]

Hi, . What a I have woken up to today. I don’t know what I did to deserve it, but it must have been something amazing because everything here is positively shining in the sunshine. . I shall try to get out and enjoy it today….especially after the day I had yesterday! . In the [...]

Hey, Hey, . Welcome to my land of sunshine upon this most wonderful morning. I hope that you are as lucky! . I was right about yesterday, when I joked that it could possibly be by teatime, ‘cos it actually happened that way. After the dubious start, the sky cleared to a wonderful blue and [...]

Hi, . Well, here I am up again at an . . So how is your week proceeding. . Mine is going OK, although we are back to leaden grey skies and extremely cold weather up here in the North. says I. . We have not done very much lately due to Big H’s lack [...]

Hi, . How did your weekend progress. . I hope you are had fun. . Yesterday I had a fine myself. We got up at 8 am and had tea, doorstep toast, butter and Marmite. Very tasty it was too. . Then we had a tiny read of the papers before we went down to [...]

Hey, . Monday, , once again. . I expect that you may well be resentfully submitting to Monday and all of it’s responsibilities and tasks. but for those of us there are other options. Lots of other retired people have said to me that they hate retirement, because they feel useless and unwanted. and they [...]

Hello Again, . It is Tuesday now and if I cannot get up soon I shall go around the bend totally. It must be awful for those poor people who are actually bedridden, especially if they cannot escape onto the Internet. I am thinking even more strongly now that very old people should be given [...]

God Morning, . Another warm morning here with everything washed anew. During the night we had endless rain and extremely strong winds that kept sounding like cracking whips….very effects! That is definitely the best time to be warm and snug in your own bed, it highlights how lucky you are to be there feeling so [...]

Hello, . Yet another . And they still keep coming around with amazing regularity too. . Up until this moment my morning was getting increasingly frustrating because I could not get my damned computer to access the  server at all. This meant that, although I was ready to get my post done quickly and early, [...]

Hello, . Well, here I am again, up in the middle of the night….almost , no-one in the place etc…..as Frank Sinatra used to say! . I did go to bed sensibly at half past twelve, but Big H came with me and lay there reading for longer than me. I tried to go to [...]

Greetings Peeps, . Home again, home again,! . I am finally back from my Christmas peregrinations, and I hope that I find you similarly happy after your holiday, replete with desirable presents and with not too much extra weight from all of those festive goodies. . It is a very good job that it only [...]

Hey folks, . Well, I awoke this morning and eventually opened my eyes to a somewhat changed light coming into the bedroom. I lay there for a while, not wanting to believe my suspicions were correct. Then a car passed by, making a certain sound, and I knew they were. . I arose and went [...]

Hi and Good Morning, . Whoah….it is now getting again, as the weather forecasters predicted. How inconvenient, we shall all be snowed in for Christmas at this rate because everything will stop again and the whole country will be in chaos once more. It is amazing really that it always happens here, no matter how [...]

Hello., And a happy to you, . Nothing much has changed up here, we are still freezing cold, with piles of frozen snow all over the place. . Yesterday Big H thought that we should go and see how our little car was coping with the extreme snowfall over the past week or so. . [...]

Good morning, . Hooray, Hooray, Hooray….I think that it may be getting a bit warmer now, because I stuck my foot out of the bed this morning when I first woke up, and it did not sizzle and turn blue immediately. Perhaps we are going to finally have a thaw and get rid of all [...]

Hi. OMG, you should see it here today. We are snowbound . There is a least a couple of foot of snow over everything and it is freezing cold….it is beautiful, but I hate not being very warm. Big H had to bring me this morning, because when I got up early I soon changed [...]

Hi Peeps, . again. It comes around so regularly. . Yesterday was mostly a quiet one, spent indoors with the newspapers, the whiskey, and two ‘not in the least bit successful’ lottery tickets. Shame that, I could have been jetting off to somewhere utterly beguiling at this very moment, but it was not to be. [...]

Hi Peeps, . Yesterday my died. Everything is fine with regard to the music, the lights and the various speed dials and incline buttons etc. but the bloody thing will not move the belt at all….not one inch. It did no good me swearing at it so Big H had a go at fixing it, [...]