Retired…. Have you retired? Are you keeping busy in your retirement? Rider has been musing on the word and it seems to have more negative overtones than positive ones and a new word is needed. After much brain bashing Rider has decided to launch ‘matured’. As in: I’ve matured now…. It’s terrific reaching your maturity…. [...]
Might be my title for my next tome – but I get so interested in research that creative writing seems to elude me. Perhaps I don’t have it in me Writing more about the village is postponed at the moment too but Rider is pursuing one project – to try to set up a [...]
It’s all good fun being a Parish Council Clerk – a letter I wrote on behalf of the Council provoked some fone calls. One chap was reluctant to let me answer until I said I would have to put the fone down unless he allowed me to. Another lady was the opposite being kind and supportive. [...]
Dude is busy working on his Theatre script, having nearly completed the first act. He’s been to see The Lion King and is due to see Enron at the Albery and Jerusalem at the Apollo in the next 2/3 weeks. He also has a couple of other shows to go to so he will be [...]
Two boys who almost killed two others (virtually torturing them over a prologed period) have been sentenced to be detained indefinitely. They came from a ‘toxic’ family background and had been placed by social services with elderly foster carers. Why weren’t the actual parents in the dock? They should have received prison sentences with a [...]
Our young newspaper guy has a unique way of dressing and his hair is usually multicolour and ever changing. He was upset the other day by some old fart making rude remarks to him when he went to collect the paper money, something the guy had done before apparently. He won’t be delivering a paper [...]
Mine is great and I have confidence in her built up over 20 years or so. This took some doing after the school dentist back in the day who was a witch and probably a fan of S & M in her spare time. Mind you the filling I had replaced today was done by [...]
After an enforced month off due to snow, the Blue Streak won’t start. Trickle feed charger didn’t work cause the battery is in the boot where a couple of lights come on when the lid is lifted thus draining the trickle charge. Red Devil’s battery is not suitable to connect up to try to jump start Blue Streak. [...]
Two young guys in West Lothian decided the ice on the Union Canal would be fun to drive on ’cause it actually shattered a stone they threw on it so they thought it would be strong enough to take the weight of the car… OKaaay! Into the car, took along their dog ‘Jimmy Naismith’ and off they [...]
Hurrah the weather has changed and rain has washed away nearly all the snow. It’s strange to see green again. Now I expect we’ll have floods and inquests into why grit and salt ran short, why the City Council couldn’t have a plan in place for farmers to plough and grit villages, why grit bins [...]
