Do you get backache? I do I not mean the twinges after a spate of gardening or those niggles after pushing the vacuum-cleaner back and forth across the carpet. I mean the dull ache across the lumbar … [Read more...]
Parrot Sitting: holiday with Dylan
It’s that time again: time for a holiday with Dylan a.k.a. “Parrot-sitting”. It is Day 3 and we are settling into a workable routine that suits us both - well, me, anyway. This African Grey Parrot is … [Read more...]
Pimms, paint and pleasing people.
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.(by John Lydgate) Have you noticed how … [Read more...]
Open Gardens and Gardening
My garden had a thorough soaking during Monday night which brought out all the snails for a dawn fest. I collected over three dozen and dumped them under the hedge across the road. It did … [Read more...]
Sleep
Did you get enough sleep last night? Come to think of it, what is “enough”? I have always thought that eight hours was the normal amount but what is ‘normal’? Does the daytime narcoleptic napping … [Read more...]
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