Hi Everyone About two years ago in this Rubbish I explained that as teenagers, if you can remember that far back, we had a little of our...

Hi Everyone In Washington DC there is the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. Every year people are honoured for their...

Hi Everyone This week the word "decay" came to my attention. Firstly, the government will spend millions of pounds encouraging and...

Hi Everyone When the terrible events of 9/11 took place, all the NATO countries quite properly regarded it as an attack on themselves as...

Hi Everyone I bet that every one of us remembers who the bullies were when we were at school. We kept away from them as much as possible...

Hi Everyone I heard someone say this week that to make sense of the world we live in at the moment is to escape into music, art, theatre...

Hi Everyone This is just a very small example of how bureaucracy and regulation have changed over the last nearly seventy years. When we...

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...