8th December, 2023

Friday again and, once again, I feel as though I am late with my homework!  Why?  It’s just gone 5pm, as I sit down at my desk, and I have successfully procrastinated all day.  Not that I haven’t been productive, just not productive in the way I’m...

1st December, 2023

Well, that’s this year’s Christmas Number One taken care of – Fairytale of New York.  In this woke climate, I’m almost scared to say I can’t stand it!  Not that I don’t like the tune and the folk influence, I do, and it’s all...

24th November, 2023

Black Friday.  Excellent.  It’s November, it’s freezing, energy prices are set to rise again in January, First Class stamps are £1.25 and it’s Black Friday!  Who needs it?!  The scammers, I suppose.  Bombarded by emails for weeks, now, one would hope...

19th November, 2023

Just who can one rely on these days?!  I was doing so well, too, until it all went pear-shaped.   Apologies.  Two days late, maybe even three by the time I have finished this, my promised Friday deadline has been and gone.  This afternoon, however, I decided to pop...

10th November, 2023

Help!  Still here but doing my best to fulfil my promise to post on a Friday.  Just nipped down to the little boutique hotel down the road from Becca’s apartment – too close and too easy – where I thought I could sit and have a Cappuccino in daylight...