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The morning rain cleared leaving a sunny if windy afternoon so I wandered over town to get the pipe fodder I was stopped from getting yesterday by the weather.After picking up the fodder I went to B&M bargain hunting and picked a few choice items

I have prepared my room ready for winter. This entailed moving my glass table into the kitchen and the wooden one into here. The wooden table is much warmer for a work station of course and roomier With a little shifting around I now have the glass table

There has been a few tales of pets on here lately so here is mine. I had a little budgie which I named Barmy as soon as I got him because of his antics. As we grew to know each other he showed me great affection and would fly to me as soon as I came into

After the two wettest days I can remember the rain is finally clearing and I can see the sky again. We have had floods along the promenade and on the mainland. There has been heavy flooding in town and the surrounding districts,some villages were cut off

I think the Internet has a lot to give the silver surfer and Vice versa. Apart from making it easy to keep in touch with distant family and friends we can discover new worlds out there with the help of our global contact list of friends. Some join groups

On Multiply Jilly set a photo a day challenge with a different subject everyday and it ran until ideas dried up. It was good fun so I thought I would share some of the more unusual photos I took. Click Here

I went to see my old Mother today,well she would be old of course being my mother. Anyway I took myself off along the channel-side and up over the big climb. The big climb is an old slag bank from the Iron working days here. A lot of it was carted off to

I have a few tomatoes from my friend and neighbour John. Despite the most horrendous summer I can remember and helping him to pick the pieces up when his little greenhouse was blown apart by an earlier storm this year he has managed to get a few plants

Today is the third dry day running which has been rare of late,the sun is still fighting some stubborn clouds but I think it's got the upper hand. I'm just messing about on here reving myself up to make the move and get the boots on and garden tools out.

I have managed to get the front grass cut and trimmed hard work though it was. I couldn't prune the miniature roses they are still flowering. I have a small bush with about 8 red blooms and another 2 with white blooms. I had just finished and about to

1 I was born 2 I wet myself a lot 3 I played a lot 4 I went to school 5 I went to work 6 I play a lot I'm not looking forward to 7 and 8

Autumn has appeared at a frightening rate and soon the clocks will go back and we will be eating our dinners with the lights on, central heating systems will be turned up solid fuel fires stoked higher and winter woolies will be brought out. Long walks

The wind has turned to the north and cold winds are chilling us a little but the rain has buggered off for a while and it needed to after more flooding in town.There are regular floods on the island it being so low lying but they don't affect people

I have just come off the phone after my daily ear bashing from Jenny. She is having fun at Mandi's and her son might visit them tomorrow but no firm promise. The bus ride was a little erratic but no doubt she will tell you all about that when she returns

I am a happy bunny today. A lot of you will know I like watching sport on the goggle box,mostly the egg chasers. Well I have been trying to find a live feed to watch the games I don't get on my TV set up. Up until now they have all been fiddly, want to

This morning has turned out to be the sort of Autumnal day we rarely see here now.The sun is shining there is little wind only a Zephyr not even stirring the leaves on the trees. As the great Bard wrote. "They are as gentle As zephyrs blowing below the

Today is a lot colder,wetter and wilder than yesterdays brief journey into a calm Autumn. Not the day for wandering so I have stayed close to home sorting a few of the little tasks that crop up for time to time. If you read yesterday about the fridge soup

Where did all this air kissing come from? it seems very popular within the so called celeb world but I have never seen it happen in the real world. Where I live you greet people either with a firm handshake,a hug, a hug and a peck on the cheek or a hug

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Yesterday we had sunshine and showers and I managed to escape for a little while. Knowing it was a very high spring tide I wandered down to the channel side and took a snap of the water flowing under the bridge. 10 metres of water being driven on by a

Today has been a wonderful day with sunshine from early til late. I was intending to pay a visit to the market and have a tootle around but the weather was much too good for that. I filled my water bottle made up a couple of ham buns and headed for the

Another fine morning here so a wander off into the sunshine seemed a perfect way to spend a little time as I have been cabined up a lot this year with the rain.I needed to get some bird fodder so I thought that will be part of the walk and a slow trawl

I like to buy British whenever possible here are a couple of examples of things that are not what they seem.I must remember to take my specs shopping with me. The first is a tin of Scottish shortbread,a traditional cover of tartan,a Coat of Arms and the

As I gazed at the old man staring back at me through the mirror while I was scraping my chin with a razor this morning I noticed something odd,OK I noticed something odder. In the night somebody has crept in and given me a neck transplant. They have

I looked out of the window earlier and spotted Ginger down the bottom of the garden,at first glance he appeared to have caught some sort of creature and I was about to go to the rescue when I noticed his kill was in fact a leaf. He was really worrying

The harbingers of winter have arrived on our shores. Every year around this time we get an influx of thousands of Starlings from Northern Europe who overwinter here. I heard them coming earlier but they are so fast that by the time I got to the window

Yes I do think now and again,this time it is about you ladies out there. I am going to leave you with a thought girls. did you get it? the thought I mean. No? Just as I thought, all this rubbish about you being able to read a mans mind is just that

The day started promisingly enough with patchy cloud letting the sun through but by late morning the sky was slate gray and the temps down to 40f with a biting north westerly. I am not alone with this cold snap Jenny and Sue report similar conditions. I

Today has been sunny but very cold so I layered up and wandered off heading nowhere in particular. I strolled awhile then called at the booze shop for some grog,a must when watching the egg chasers and footie over the weekend. Stacy was on duty and after

Late last night while waiting for Jenny to call I noticed the garden and front street were white with what I thought was snow but thankfully it turned out to be hail. This morning I awoke to rain and it hasn't stopped since,the birds have been absent no

today is a cracking day all blue sky and sunshine. The birds have returned and having a party in the garden and everybody is smiling. I wandered off to get my shopping and took a few snapshots along the way,I had to peel a layer off half way over the

I made a quick dash to the shop this morning,I needed cow juice and since the Milkman stopped the daily doorstep deliveries I haven't been organised and occasionally run low.The same thing with my eggs and spuds. On the way I met up with 5 people and four