It looks as if Spring is on its way at last. The days are getting longer, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the daffodils are b...

I´ve just been listening to a BBC documentary in which James Naughtie tells the story of an audacious raid carried out on Christmas Day 195...

This is the front of this year´s Dora calendar. I have one made for her doting daddy every year. Last year was very stressful for him so th...

As some of you may know, I spent much of the summer laid up with sciatica. The only place this condition was tolerable for me was in the ...

I love creating photo collages and I particularly enjoy extracting parts of photos, adding them to others and experimenting with the variou...

The origins of Halloween, also known as All Souls´Night, lie in the Celtic festival of Samhain, (a Gaelic word meaning summer´s end) whic...

I´ve been missing in action, or rather in inaction, since July when I was struck down and brought to a standstill, or rather a lie still, b...