This is what remains of my posies from the lunch tables at the Bakewell Refugee Hospitality Day on Saturday. The ones still fresh are  now...

This is a blog post of several parts.  One A young man in Gaza followed me on Instagram yesterday. I looked at his posts and the last few we...

I’ve been sitting in bed having breakfast - a home made hot cross bun (thanks Dave) and Yorkshire tea - listening to Dave recount multiple r...

When the family member who declines to be named and the lovely Jaine invited me to go on holiday with them and MsX to Portugal I knew nothin...

  We have seen the sun occasionally this week, but not a lot. Today looks promising and I’m sitting out on the patio watching birds of prey ...

  I’m sorry for yesterday’s inadequate post. I am on holiday (check last but one post to find out who with) but I still see the news and I s...

  This is the latest email report from the Good Shepherd Collective, which is an organisation based in Palestine.  I’m sorry I can’t make th...

The political landscape is too bleak. This Labour government is shockingly heartless and in cutting aid to the poorest and sickest, it disgr...

  I heard the blackbird sing for the first time this morning (at 5.20am). Dave brings me a mug of Yorkshire tea first thing in the morning i...

I am still not well, a month after I first came down with that stinking cold. I’m really NOT asking for sympathy, I’m just reporting.  So, b...

  Ok. Just for five minutes, forget the fact that the world is being dominated by a lying, law-breaking fascist, and let’s think about somet...

Well. My snot finally dried up after two soggy weeks, and then I got laryngitis. I know it’s that because I checked my symptoms on the NHS w...

   ‘What can I do to cheer you up?’ Dave said at teatime yesterday. ‘Get rid of Trump, replace Starmer with Corbyn, clear my head of snot,’ ...

Do you have a to-do list? I usually send myself an email last thing at night with the next day’s to-do list as the subject title. But when I...

I turned 75 last year but I haven’t got to grips with it yet. What I mean is this: I am fairly fit, but I walked 10,000 steps yesterday on a...