Today is my dear wife’s birthday so we decided a little treat was in order. We went for a walk along the beach to St. Annes.
It was a grey morning but with no wind as we strolled along the beach to the Beach Café for a hearty breakfast. We walked just short of 6 miles, which probably took care of about a third of breakfast but a good start to the day.
Birthday lunch will be on Sunday.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac with help from the handmaids Last night we finally reached the end of the final series of The Handmaid’s Tale. For those of you who haven’t kept up, there have been 6 series. The program has never been less than good and has often been excellent if extremely disturbing. The final…
I know I said no more politics until 2026, but I just had to reprint this from the Letters page of The Times a couple of days ago. Hope I don’t get arrested. Apparently I’m in the right demographic. Sir, The home secretary proposed to ban Palestine Action on the ground of “unacceptable criminal damage”…
What I Like (no particular order) Family and Friends Mountains and lakes Liverpool F.C. Good music (ie: what I like) Red Wine, beer and good food A good book The red Ferrari I’ll never own My country (mostly) What I don’t like (no particular order) Our current government Brexit Manchester Utd. Bad music (ie: what…
Yesterday evening (Aug 3rd) Heather and I attended a vigil for peace in Gaza. This post and the next will featrure two poems by Palestinian writers which were used in the vigil. Neither are used to excuse or justify the actions of either Hamas or the Israeli government and army. Both, it seems to me,…
We’re just back from a couple of days in Clitheroe. It’s a lovely town and it’s only 40 minutes away from us. I was bought a night in The Spinning Block Hotel, which is part of the Holmes Mill complex, for my birthday last November and we finally managed to take advantage of my very…
Following on from my last post concerning Heather and her accident in Grasmere, I thought I would update everyone regarding her injuries. Heather was discharged from out-patients today. The x-rays showed no breaks to her facial bones and it’s just a question of waiting until some bits of scar tissue heal up completely. Once again…