Lockdown 3.0: It’s a vaccine, not a cure!
Another week in Lockdown completed, and while the end is still nowhere in site in terms of a full, unfettered return to the wild, the light at the end of …
Lockdown 3.0: How COVID-19 Has Changed My TV Viewing
Like many, I suspect, I have watched a number of old films again since March 2020, but somewhat ironically not Groundhog Day. No real reason why not, I enjoyed the …
Lockdown 3.0: How Was Your First Week?
I ask because I am a little concerned that I missed the memo cancelling the Lockdown. Walking the dogs back in March in our allotted hour per day we bumped …
Dry January: 34th Year
Another year starts with a Dry January for me, the 34th year in a row that I have done this. No huge story behind it: when I fist started work …
2021 A Year Of Emotional, Financial and Social Austerity
As I write this Brexit is done, and the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been approved, and will join the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine being rolled out throughout the UK. With a …
Remembering Orla (RIP)
It is hard to believe that it is twelve (12) years today that we lost Orla. Would have loved to have seen how she developed as she was such good …
Happy Birthday Oscar
Little hard to accept that Oscar is twelve (12) years old today! Always a happy fella he is one of the cats that has changed the most since we moved …
Happy Anniversary Moreno
Fourteen (14) years ago today we picked Moreno up, brought him home, and life changed for ever. Not just for Sands and I but for Saidi (RIP), Orla (RIP), Oscar, …