Month: April 2017

As I was going to St. Ives,: I met a man with seven wives,: Each wife had seven sacks,: Each sack had seven cats,: Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,: How many were there going to St. Ives? So we couldn't really resist this offer from Shearings Coaches of £99 per person for three nights bed and breakfast and evening meal. Last Friday morning we jumped in the car and off we...

It is for you to wonder and me to know.  All will be revealed next Tuesday.

Françoise is on the TGV now (11.30 am) going to Lille as part of her return journey. I don't have much to do this morning or should I say what I have to do can wait and meanwhile I decided to enjoy a very sunny though not warm morning walk and go into the town. When my head starts irritating me it's always a sign that a haircut is due. My lady barber always wants to talk to me more than I want...

I went along to see the big garden that I mentioned before. It is clear that the diminutive German lady and the rather large husband, an English engineer, do not communicate. I came back prepared to cut up and take away a tree and I was instead given a big lecture about how much money they are spending on a house for the daughter and thus how little there is to spend in the garden. My immediate...

Today the funeral took place in Lyon, France of my wife's cousin, Chantal, who as you can see from above is an artist. This is one of her works.  I had decided to go to chalice well in Glastonbury to pay my respects using the network of ley lines that criss-cross Europe and link into UK. I'm not bad at using my intuition and I went along to chalice well and sat on my own by the actual well which...

Françoise is sitting talking to her sister-in-law in a rainy Lyon as I write. I'm getting used now to just speaking into a microphone and getting any information I require instantly. It is 12° in Lyon, light rain, humidity 83%, wind speed 12 km an hour from the West.   I like facts and figures but does it really matter that much? The main thing is that Françoise is having a good time with her...