To National Rail Museum York.. well worth a free visit. The one in Sacramento USA was good with the engines beautifully kept and Rider picked up ‘The Harvey Girls – Women Who Opened the West’ there.. terrific book. The York museum is even bigger than when visited some years ago. Apart from the trains, carriages, goods wagons, bullet and [...]
Chester is such an interesting place. Great museum with part explaining Roman Chester. The XX Legion – symbol a boar and motto Valeria Victrix was stationed there over many years. Long after they’d departed a section of the city wall was repaired using some gravestones from the Roman time. This was jolly lucky cause the [...]
Dysons should come with a health warning. OMG …talk about powerful suction…make sure your carpet is well stuck down and any small pets/children stand well clear. After many years of frustrating and hilarious acquaintance with vacs, there may at last be one which does what it claims to do and is light enough not to [...]
This is talked about in every Parish Council in the land on a regular basis. Irate residents who ‘want something done’ but won’t put pen to paper so owners can be reported and fined. Why can’t some smart person invent a dye to spray which would be drawn up the dog’s back legs/bum when it squatted [...]
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 [...]
Should be renamed ‘Rip Off Those Who Can Pay Tax’ in our neck of the woods. This year it will be just over £1600 on Rider’s modest property. In fact Piggynap is just querying her Tax as her ‘Band’ is different to others which are exactly the same – hopefully she’ll get a reduction. What [...]
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 – [...]
I’l fait beau aujourd’hui le 4 mars et c’est l’anniversaire de Grenouille (28). That’s enough French for today then… there are trois months before the trip. Consulting the Phrase book throws up some interesting things for conversation.. Je fais des economies pour m’acheter une moto.. for instance. Very amusing to let someone think Rider’s getting a [...]
Cesar Millan is doing a tour in Britain showing how to interact properly with your dog. I’ve seen loads of his Shows on TV from before he got so famous and what he does is common sense to an animal person. So few people now have been brought up around animals, paticularly in the case of [...]
