Hi Everyone As I was born before WW2 started, as a small child I was oblivious to all those world events. It was not until the end of the...

Hi Everyone In the 1950s when I started my working career at a timber and joinery factory, there were standard windows and doors but...

Hi Everyone If you went on the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour in the 1960s, you will remember the song "Hello, Goodbye." Although I was a...

Hi Everyone Something that we are told we must preserve at all costs is free speech. I have aways thought that it is up to all of us to...

Hi Everyone I thought that it might be a good idea to look back at 2024 to see what pearls of wisdom I have learned this year especially...

Hi Everyone Well, that is another three month Christmas come and gone. If you are sad to see it all end, don't worry a three week...

Hi Everyone For the last thirty plus years I have accompanied the real Santa around the streets of our local area as a treat for the...

Hi Everyone In the days of the Fruit, Vegetable, Flower, Game and Lolly shop there were no charity shops, just a Pawnbrokers about thirty...

Hi Everyone When we were young before the days of television, and even when there were 2 channels to choose from, the cinema or "the...

Hi Everyone When you are approaching middle age, you find that sometimes you just sit in a comfortable chair doing absolutely nothing,...

Hi Everyone In the week that Russia invaded Ukraine, I said in my blog that we must make sure that Ukraine remains a free independent...

Hi Everyone A few years ago we visited that lovely market town of Pudsey in Yorkshire. I suppose you could say that it is one of the more...

Hi Everyone Back in the 1980s part of my business involved installing UPVC windows in people's homes. At the beginning, we were one of...

Hi Everyone Every Wednesday at 12-00 when parliament is in session, there is a ritual called Prime Minister's Questions. This is one of...

Hi Everyone Mr. Deny Everything, Admit Nothing was interviewed on our TV screens this week. He lives in luxury in London, speaks English,...

Hi Everyone When I was young I cannot remember seeing anyone who could be described as obese, This was a time when men were returning...

Hi Everyone Now if, like me you are approaching middle age you will remember that your mother cut slices of bread from a newly baked...

Hi Everyone Is there still a war going on in Ukraine? Is there still a conflict going on in Gaza? I mention this as all the news this...

Hi Everyone At some point along the way, most of us have sought advice. Usually, it is from a Solicitor about making a will or power of...

Hi Everyone This week freebies are in the news. This happens sometimes in your working life when you get something for nothing from a...