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 [...]
Ooh .. it’s years since Rider enfamille visited France. Hols had been discussed.. from a few days in New York to ditto in Hong Kong, to walking on the Isle of Wight, to walking in Portugal, to Hotel on the Algarve, to Hotel in Normandy via ferry. Criterion was fairly cheap this year to allow [...]
I’m in demand according to an advert on Facebook …. wanting people in their maturity to try out certain unspecified ‘products’. I was tempted to reply… after all it could be a top notch Plastic Surgeon wanting to do a before and after shoot and I want to look my best for when Writeous Dude [...]
It’s taken 4 weeks for Leeds Highways to refurbish the pavement in my short street. There have been 3/4 bad weather days in this time. The workman were on site a total of 4.5 hours a day on most days for 3 weeks – probably time between their home depot is counted as working. This week they have been [...]
On what felt like the first day of Spring – sunny, bright, not too cold, daffs poking up – had a walk. Past the entrance to a settlement pond taking run-off from the big road nearby. It might as well have been the entrance to a rubbish tip. Vehicles often park there – many of [...]
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 [...]
There’s a piece in our paper today about the growing trend for matured people to take to writing – not always their life stories or experiences – all sorts of writing. A few names were mentioned of folk who’d made it big when much more mature than Rider. Yippee! The creative process doesn’t necessarily atrophy [...]
Writeous Dude enjoyed Paris – he went up the Tower, had a cruise, visited Montmartre, the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa. He helped with the production – Alan Bennett’s play about the old lady who lived in a van in his drive in London - with the electrics on one evening and then backstage the [...]
