Seven Days In

Suprisingly I got through  "Like A Rolling Stone" by Greil Marcus  as it was a bit like reading Dylan and jumped around timewise,...

 Sometimes you do wake up to nice little surprises. This morning I started my phone up up and there was a Paypal payment (one of the few no...

I reread books I like, mainly because my memory is fairly rubbish,but many years ago I picked up a book, I think from a ...

I am tired and wasn't going to write anything , but think I should write something, so may as well do it now and then maybe have  a...

Just reading the excellent "Notes on a Nervous Planet" and something came up that applies to me. I continually feel that I d...

I have an Owl Clock that I got from Whitby, and this week I noticed it had stopped, at midnight... or it could have been mid day as it...

I'm constantly amazed by how much good stuff in general there is and how we have the ability to do so many things with a lot less ef...

Recently , maybe over the last six months or longer , it seems I have less time to do things, or that's how I sometimes perceive it...

Not quite yet Well the last few months have been amazing and the next few weeks are likely to be just as good. Have been catching u...

Today after doing a couple of hours at the excellent Oxfam Books and Music in Jesmond , I got mack into Newcastle and decided to go for...

Birds in the Garden Today has been more than a little weird. The weather is still wintery and I was going to refill the bird feeder...

This is my first post this month, despite being technically free to do what I please. This week has resulted in time at the DWP , a coup...

This week has been a bit of ups and downs and today had it's share of potential disasters, starting with my phone company disconnec...

Or rather, yesterday they worked in the wrong way. My first day volunteering at Oxfam with Brian, Katie , Jan and another girl who came...

It's been an interesting week, not least the atrocious weather we've been having.  Had a guy out to fix the roof, which has sti...

Amazon.co.uk Widgets For the past couple of days I have been pottering about in Shropshire and Powys , mainly in Ludlow and Shrewsbury ...