Stacks of them in our village – Rider amongst them! A reliable source said Greeny (name disguised)- a known member of the species – arrived at the pub in a taxi accompanied by a goat. The taxi driver may have been a friend but more likely didn’t like to refuse some money or was a [...]
If you walk along the River Nidd at Knaresborough you might just come across the place where Brer Rabbit and his family live. Today the family were out in force across the river … chasing about playing rabbit games…in and out of their front doors… nibbling the fresh spring grass. Brer Rabbit was probably inside [...]
BA are advertising flights to Europe on the MSN website despite all planes being grounded in the UK and parts of Europe. A volcano in Iceland, with an unprounceable name to anyone but an Icelander, is pouring out particles of glass into the atmosphere. These particles kill aircraft engines so it’s too dangerous to fly [...]
Bet you don’t know that, back in the day, a licence was required to have one. The reason was their ‘droppings’ – to be polite. Once a year these were collected, like taxes, by the State to be used as a constituent of ‘saltpetre’ (gunpowder). Doves, and later pidgeons, were kept for their meat and [...]
The internet domain name .xxx may be resurrected to bring adult websites into one place as I understand it. This seems to Rider to be a good thing so that everyone knows how to access such stuff should they be so minded – hitting the wrong key and finding yourself looking at something very strange has been [...]
Knock on door… opened to a vision… I swear it was Zandra Rhodes. Woman of middle youth, blonde hair escaping from funky woolly hat but her eye shadow was the most intricate bright – almost clown-like – I have every seen close up. It was predominantly red but with blues and golds and stuff – [...]
Just finished reading a book – a thriller about a fire and brimstone American preacher with white supremicist views but who is intelligent enough to retract his views when presented with some research done by a geneticist. The geneticist shows that certain human branches sometimes suffer from deseases unknown in other branches and that where branches [...]
Memories have been stirred by the forthcoming trip. Walking enfamille down a road… French car comes to a halt… oh heck will Rider’s French be required?… out jumped chap, hurried to the rear and opened the boot…walked a few metres to a heap a horse had left in the road… picked up said heap with [...]
Folk were very God-fearing when it suited them back in the day. (No change there then). Even the nobility who had displayed their great wealth in life wanted to appear humble in death so as to get into Heaven. Guy, Earl of Warwick asked in 1315 that he should be buried with no funeral pomp. Richard, Earl of [...]
A Hindu chap from Newcastle has won the right to be cremated on a funeral pyre when his time comes – it will be in a suitable spot and shielded etc. It’s nice he will be able to have his wish. Yesterday there was a funeral in the village and the people all seemed to [...]
