In 1949, when my dad was 15, he designed the card above which was selected by his school, The King’s School, Peterborough, for their Christmas card that year. I remember seeing the card quite often over the years,
Tits and Teeth, Darling!
Well that was an eventful weekend. As you know from my ‘Haemorrhoid City’ post, Spalding Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society were asked to entertain the shoppers on Saturday and Sunday in the town centre. Never
One Short Day in the Haemorrhoid City
How to ruin a good song for everyone. One Short Day from the musical Wicked is on our set list for the Christmas concert our AmDram group are performing in Spalding town centre this weekend. Of
Mum’s Gone to the Cotswolds – Oxford
A month later, I’m finally getting around to posting about the last part of our Cotswolds trip. So you’ve had the journey there via Tesco and the Rollright Stones, I’ve moaned about our fruitless visit
Review: Mega Hi-Tower from Garden Games
Hi-Tower – with volleyball to give you some sense of scale My teenage son, Rory, was sitting beside me when the email came through offering me the chance to review a Giant Jenga
Mum’s Gone to the Cotswolds – Beautiful Blenheim
After the disaster of Bicester and the success of ‘going for a walk’, our second full day in the Cotswolds greeted us with pouring rain. Undeterred, we donned sturdy footwear and raincoats and drove off to
We Will Remember Them
Do you remember this photograph I posted a couple of weeks ago (here) for The Gallery, the theme for that week being Faces? Well, that particular week there was a prize for the best photo and
Book Review: The House of the Wind by Titania Hardie
The House of the Wind, by Titania Hardie, tells the story of two women, centuries apart, whose lives are woven together by the myth of the woman who walked away unscathed from the ruins of