Seize the day. Veryan and I certainly did when we first met on Friday 13 March last year, just a week before lockdown. By the following...

Hi folks, Last night's announcement by the overprivileged buffoon in charge of the headless chickens in our "Government by U Turn", means...

Hi everyone, Sorry to have gone so quiet of late, but this last Spring and Summer was exceptional and not only because of lockdown or...

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and safe during this deadly pandemic. It seems only a short time ago that we were able to...

Hi folks, I hope you are all keeping well in this most difficult of recent times and I hope you are all pleased to hear that I am so far...

Some Seasonal Memories of 1967

Greetings fellow Earthlings, At least we haven't actually voted yet on whether we should go and live on another planet, even if many of...

After Melinda and I had a coffee in Arromanches, we walked around looking for somewhere for a bite of lunch. Unfortunately, many of the...

A trip to Montfiquet and then to arromanches

Thank you for all your Christmas cards, which are really appreciated and I am still putting off the inevitable task of removing them from...

Let's Get Xmas Done!

So it's not Goodbye EU Day but it is Halloween

Hello everyone, Just down the road (Route de Coq Gaulois) from where I was staying at Jan's little house... ...past these rather splendid...

Hi everyone, The weekend during my stay in Normandy back in September happened to coincide with "Les 36e Journées Européennes du...

...so I went over to France again to visit my friend, Jan, in Normandy, before she moved house to Brittany... ...and here she is, in the...

Hello everyone, It was another beautiful afternoon on Tuesday 16 July, when high tide that ends on the Thames at Teddington Lock was due...

Chers amis et famille, I left la Londe-les-Maures on the morning of Saturday 29 June and headed northwest with the temperature in the low...

Bonjour à tous, A little way up from my favourite spot on la Plage del'Argentière is a sailing school... ...so in English it may be...

As soon as May is over, Artists' Open Houses have all finally closed and I am yet another year older, I allow myself to succumb to my...

Hi again, at last, I really don't know whether I should apologise for the tardiness of this blog or not. On the one hand, it might be...