I had an email from an old school friend this week who is the same age as me - 75. She had exciting news. She lives in the East Midlands lik...

This morning I woke up to a text from the Aging Hippie in California telling me how desperate she feels about the political situation and ho...

I was sitting in bed yesterday morning writing a long newsy email to some old friends of ours, when the family member who declines to be nam...

I just had a 36 hour whirlwind trip to the smoke to grab some culture. Because of the dire weather warnings and the sheet ice across the wid...

Yesterday I did it. I sat down and wrote to my new MP (Labour in our constituency for the first time since 1832 - which has a spuriously acc...

Here I am, slumped back on the pillows in bed, fully dressed, exhausted. It is 3.44 pm on Friday afternoon and I am done in.  I slept well l...

  Well, I’ve read more than enough articles now on why Trump won and Harris lost. The most convincing explanation to me is that Americans fe...

  And today, November 6th 2024, the world became even darker.

  When you arrive at Denver airport you walk over a long curved bridge to reach immigration. There is haunting music playing and all along t...

   “For someone who’s just come back from an event on Non-Violent Communication, you’re being remarkably argumentative this morning” Dave sa...

Something’s been troubling me. Dave and I wear these bracelets.  He wears the white one and I wear the black one. But when I arrived at Denv...

I had a lovely time away in Colorado with the family, and in California with the aging hippie, but I always love coming home. I left a day o...

  These are my pictures of beautiful Boulder I am leaving the family today and don’t know when I will see them again. Will sanity reign in t...

Dave’s latest letter to our new Labour MP: The Government is determined to side with Israel, citing Israel’s right to defend itself, and cla...

I cannot post trivia while Israel continues to act like a raging beast and the West does nothing but send arms. I am sick at heart. The way ...

I posted most of this yesterday and then took it down because I thought it mean. I’ll tell you why at the end. This is the view as I flew fr...