Do you remember a few weeks ago I wrote about vibrators in the mini-bar? Of course you do as it was a rude post, which always flashes on the ‘I think I’ll click on...
So beginneth the new kitchen
This photo shows where our old boiler used to live. It lives here no longer. There wasn’t anything wrong with it, as such, but it was elderly, creaking, probably not very green and, with...
Mum’s Gone to fill in the blanks…
It’s ages since I’ve partaken in a bit of meme. You know how it is: you wait to be tagged in some “You’re a brilliant blogger, I wish I could write like you and you...
Hysterical Women.
My last post, Have you got the Painters in?, was so popular I have been urged to provide more information from my 1907 book, The Household Physician. Well, truth be told, a couple of you...
Have you got the painters in?
On our bookshelves, positioned between the bizarrely-titled Doctor, there’s something wrong with my guts and the tantalising Tendinitis: its etiology and treatment are four volumes of The Household Physician, originally written in 1874 by Dr J McGregor-Robertson but updated...
Me and My Monkey
Yesterday’s Gallery entry over at The Blog Up North featured a great photo of Garry, aka @himupnorth taken many a year ago with a little monkey. Reading through the comments it was evident that this was quite...
Laughing Through the Tears
My dad and I at my graduation, Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1985. Since my dad died last Friday there has been a lot of tears but there has also been, quite surprisingly, many laughs. We...