This is likely to be the last entry for this year, so we may as well go out with a bit of a rant. Those of you of a nervous disposition, please stop reading now. For those of you still reading, I was only kidding. It’s not really a rant, but simply another awareness-raising exercise. [...]
Well, that’s Christmas come and gone again. A shame in some ways, but not in others. A shame because, although it is a great excuse for a family gathering, it is inevitably transient but, on the other hand, this very transience heightens the enjoyment in much the same way as the short seasons of special [...]
Whilst looking for something else, I came across a Christmas card from around thirty years ago. I have kept it all these years, because it is home made and unique. It is from an old friend, Bob, with whom I used to work in those bad old motorway building days. All it says on the [...]
A friend of ours from Raglan sent us a photograph today – of a daffodil in full bloom in her garden. Yesterday, on the Winter Solstice, it displayed a bud just ready to unfurl, and today here it is, the emblem of spring, basking in the sunshine of a balmy December day. I could now [...]
Farmers’ Market today, but with a difference. For a start off, all the stallholders were dressed like extras from a BBC Dickens production. By some coincidence, possibly brought on by the fact that I have just watched the latest of that ilk, Little Dorrit, I was wearing a Victorian-style stock around my neck this morning, [...]
Does anyone want to see our holiday snaps? Okay, fair enough. Is anyone interested at all in what we did on our hols? Hmmm. I see. Well, bad luck – I’m going to tell you anyway. But I’ll be brief. We happen to know of this fabulous flat in Saundersfoot, just north of Tenby on [...]
We had to pop into town today for some essentials. We couldn’t help but notice the daily papers, spread out in pictorial display, depicting for all to see the doom and gloom that is their stock in trade. Most of the papers were running a headline story about the financier Bernard Madoff, an interesting modern-day [...]
Well, we’re back. Actually, we were back on Thursday night, arriving to a meal laid on for us by Sal’s mum, thus continuing the holiday mood quite effectively. Thursday might seem a strange day to return from what might have been a week’s break, but we already had guests booked in for Friday night, so [...]
Try as I might, I just haven’t been able to find the time to add anything to the dairy since the last entry on 25th November. We still find it difficult to comprehend at this time of year, but we have bee so busy at Aspen House. I don’t want to bring up the ugly [...]