Alright, mush? You probably don’t need reminding but today marks the 41st anniversary of Libby Riddles becoming the first woman to win the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. While dog sledding – or [...]
My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. Ahh that post tax [...]
Here’s a word that has fallen from grace somewhat in recent years. When I was a lad back in the 70s, the idea of personal grooming for blokes was as alien as straight trousers and 24 hour [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the Inbox… “Oh, he’s back.” Yep. It was just a brief sojourn. I’ve been working on another project, you see, entitled [...]
The thing about working on roofs is that you get to know your birds. We’ve had a cocky little critter strutting about the garden for several weeks – in fact, there it is now – and when Mick [...]
