July 1st Canada 150 What a wonderful place Canada is and has been for our family. Such a nice day yesterday - farmers market, a few drinks, cooking, some decent TV (thanks to the BBC) and just chatting. Then fireworks.... Continue Reading →
This month we will be in France and back in Canada. Watch this space for news, thoughts, and images from Toulouse. June 1 Visited the Musee Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi. A Very nice gallery display of his work in a building very... Continue Reading →
May 1st 1st of May is traditionally a day to celebrate work and labour. I am not sure that this is the same as, in Britain, celebrating Labour. Yet today I am working. I am at Douglas College in British... Continue Reading →
April 1st Ever since the BBC and Cliff Mitchelmore ran a piece on Panorama in 1957 about the poor spaghetti harvest in Switzerland and its impact on the eating habits of the locals (brilliantly funny), I have looked forward to... Continue Reading →
March 1st [St. David's Day] Today is L's 69th birthday. I will be 67 later this year. We don't do much to celebrate these events, other than to acknowledge "we are still here!". In fact, apart from the more frequent... Continue Reading →
This is where you will find my fun writing as well as my more serious (as in paid for) work..
Alan Bennet, The Queen, Donald Trump, Benjamin Britten, Queen Victoria and others....
New Years Resolutions, Universities and Freedom, Vladimir Trumpkin, The Queen, music, films and pleasure...
