My favourite thing to do, when it isn’t too crowded or busy, is to eavesdrop on the public transport.
Bus, train, tube, all are fertile ground for interesting snippets of others’ private lives.
Codswallop
Slang for load of rubbish. My life as an erstwhile homeschooler and the subsequent written musings thereof may verge on codswallop at times. Mostly my day to day musings on life as a boomer exploring happenstances as they come my way are treasures worth recording.
Nature’s Homage to Harvest…
At the beginning of October Harvest Festival takes place when we offer the first fruits and thank God for a…
White Hot…
I was tweeted on Twitter last week by a lady who had spotted my hair and wanted to send me…
Gathering Gloom…
The first time Daughts and I walked to the dead end of an unpaved road it was a July evening, still duskily light but too late to enter the dark, strange woods. I didn’t want to get lost along pathways Edward Scissor Hands may frequent.
Deep Purple…
Yes, purple is my PerriPoppins daughter’s favourite colour but this isn’t about the colour. It’s about the band! We went…
Saying I Do…Again and Again…
Twenty-Nine years ago my Blue Eyed Cowboy robbed the cradle and together we said out first “I do’s” in the City of Westminster with God as our witness.
Jonathan and Cherry’s Open House…
There are lots of wonderful things about Jonathan and Cherry’s house, the art, the pieces they’ve picked up from their travels, the fabrics, the smell of their open fire and the general welcoming warmth as we step across the thresh-hold and into their world.
Dinner Date…
I told her I had looked out of a train window once on our way back to school from some outing in London and said wistfully, as the acres of countryside rushed passed,
“Imagine someone owning all that land…” to which she had chirped,
“I do…”
The Pond at Beckenham Place Park…
On Sunday I managed to persuade hubs to come with me on a quest to find the oldest pond in Lewisham…