Corners of my Mind

Way Up High...... or down low....... I'll go wherever you will go .... Yes, word's from 'Wherever you will go' by The Cal...

Today we walked around one of the lakes at Greenway Bank Country Park. The park is just a short drive away, up through the north of the ci...

Today's theme for the UK at Home photos is called 'Morning Rush' and these refuse collectors were certainly rushing around this ...

This week is UK at Home week in which people are asked to take photos at particular times each day this week to give a snapshot of life acr...

We were sitting having breakfast about 8.30a.m. this morning when these two balloons drifted over our garden. We are used to seeing the gre...

I've just read a report in the local paper about a catapult attack on a school in Stafford. A teacher was hit on the side of her head b...

The weather today has brought to mind the first two lines from a poem called 'Remembrances' by John Clare. ' Summer pleasures th...

I wrote this poem a few years ago after we paid a visit to Sutton Scarsdale Hall. How many people's voices have echoed through your hall...

Yesterday we visited the first of the two buildings we had chosen from the twenty one different venues opened up across the Potteries for t...

In my last post I mentioned that I would write about some of the items that I felt I could not part with and that I would start with some o...

Not quite the correct lyrics of I'll be there for you by the Rembrants that goes something along the lines of:- it's like you'r...

This morning as we set off for our usual walk around Trentham Lake we came across Monsieur Bibendum. He wasn't there last time we walke...

We had to buy a new door mat yesterday because one of our cats,Tom, has decided - even though we have two litter trays in the house - that ...

Earlier this year I picked up a small brochure about local gardens. Inside there were several vouchers offering two entries for the price o...

As soon as I see the bindweed flowers engulfing the roadside hedgerows I know that summer is almost over. The flowers are so pretty and de...

This morning we took a long walk on Barlaston Downs. We hadn't been there for a while and soon discovered that quite a few things had ch...

Every morning Mr Blackbird waits for his breakfast on the fence near the bird table. He watches whilst we put out the crumbs of bread from...

On 22nd August 1485 Richard III, much maligned King of England, lost his life and the battle for the English throne to Henry Tudor, Duke of...

The last few days have been quite hectic and I'm not sure what they have added to our carbon footprints as we have driven at least twice...

I just love the delicate colour of these roses in our garden; they have a lovely fragrance too. I thought I would just take an hour out of ...