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I don't know how the record of my recent visit to london will work out but I will try and give you the essence of what I have learned as well as useful prompts for my own memory to assist in recalling the details. My policy is to leave in very good time allowing for contingencies so we left home at 9:45 a.m. in preparation for the Megabus that left Bristol at 12:30. A local bus that we have come...

I never know when I am going to be fired up to write something and today was no exception. We have a localized group from social media called NextDoor.co.uk.  It's content is 90% matters of local interest. People are very generous with their time and their contributions and it is a good site to belong to. My eye was caught by the article below: I have a leaky shed, it is only 6x8ft , some guys...

Our last morning We had to get up for a 7.15 breakfast and from thence to the coach where our baggage was arranged according to the town at which we were going to be dropped off. We left two minutes after the departure time - 8 17 am - and were treated to lovely frost-covered fields, more blue skies and a delightful rising sun. Banks of fog were in the distance. I have been on a handful of such...

I'm sure this is something my readers and I will have in common. The holiday is far distant, next month, then next week, and finally the day dawns. Today is THE day. Today is the day I have been looking forward to for some time, the chance to take a break, I normally pack far more clothes than I actually use and this is a habit I have been unable to break. I took four pairs of trousers of which...

Not being able to sleep last night, I arose and had a look at some of the programs stored on my Sky box.   I found a series featuring John Cleese who had been given a series of 10 programs by GB news to do what he liked.  He was called something like the Dinosaur Hour. He was talking about wokeness. Before I start, I should mention that it was extremely difficult to hear what he had to say...

The bombardment continues I switched on the TV this morning about 7:30 and tuned in to Al Jazeera which is about the only impartial media I know of. There are four main hospitals in the Gaza strip and the Israelis have now moved in to continuously bomb the main hospital itself and as a result there is no food, no water, electricity, no safety going from point A to point B nowhere to bury the...