Corners of my Mind

How on earth does a mole get on a beach? I’ve never heard of this phenomenon before and yet, that is what we saw. A black velvety mole wit...

This year the Himalayan Balsam , which grows at the side of the Cauldon Canal, seems to be taller and more prolific than ever. I’m assuming ...

I was sitting in the car at Sainsbury’s petrol station in Hanley whilst P was putting petrol in, whiling away the time watching other people...

Just a few photos from last week's holiday - St Davids Cathedral ............ Fishguard Harbour Castell Henllys ................. Din...

We've just returned home from a wonderful holiday in Pembrokeshire. We had a lovely cottage up in the Preseli Hills, where buzzards whir...

It's really too hot to be writing this. We have just spent the day picking black-currants and gooseberries from the garden. If we leave ...

There are three things puzzling me. You can no doubt tell I haven’t got anything of great importance to distract me at the moment and in the...

The orange walls and bright blue pillars of the coffee bar seemed cool and inviting as we entered. Sipping our coffee and admiring the pictu...

I can’t believe it is 10 days since my last entry. Time passes by very swiftly and to quote John Simpson in ‘The 5-minute Interview’ in toda...

I'm used to getting lots of letters in the post containing pens; there is a huge collection of them by the telephone. I even used to ge...

We went up to Ainsdale Sands on Saturday. Every year P takes a couple of coach loads of students up to the sand dunes for field work and he...

Just some of today’s highlights:- Field after field of golden buttercups as we travelled up towards Hope and Castleton. Breakfast at the Nag...

As I walked into town this morning via the old St John’s churchyard my senses became aware of the heady pungent smell of elderflowers. They ...

Still discussing the previous night’s performance of Richard III on Saturday we drove across country via Ipstones and Longnor to Buxton. We ...

So saith Lord Stanley to Richmond as he handed over the crown plucked from the brow of the dead King Richard on the Battlefield of Bosworth....

What a strange week. Well I was right about the rain, I really shouldn’t have taken the garden furniture out of its winter storage. No law...

Can’t believe it’s a week since I last wrote anything for here. The last few days have gone by in a daze of lawn cutting, gardening, cookin...

Yeh! Thank goodness, my vote did count. I was fully expecting to wake up this morning to the devastating news that the BNP had won another s...

We’ve been having a ‘clear out’ or ‘de-cluttering’ of junk accumulated over the years. I’ve been quite good at letting go of things* but I’...

The weekend started wonderfully as we made an escape for a couple of hours at lunch on Friday, a walk around the lake at Trentham then lunch...