Debbie and I are going to Nottingham today via Cleveleys where we will take a walk along the beach before brunch at my favourite sea-front cafe. Nottingham is a particular favourite of ours for a city break. It’s big enough that there’s lots to see and do, it’s got that...
Chris and I have been trying to arrange a day to cycle the Preston Guild Wheel, a 21 mile cycle path around Preston, it’s taken us a few months but today was finally the day and it turned out just perfect. We arranged to leave at 10am, which gave me...
Debbie and I are going away for a short break in Nottingham next week and tomorrow I'm cycling the Preston Guild Wheel, so today has been my opportunity to tidy up a few nagging tasks. I finally got around to changing the template that I use for my blog, I...
I’ve had a clean and simple design for my blog for a decade or more, but change has been long overdue. I’ve been looking for a new template for a while, and I also needed a theme that would accommodate my diary and well as my blog, within the same...
I'm writing this post on my iPad, it's an experiment to see if I can work successfully without my laptop. If I can then I won't be taking it on holiday with me, when I'm travelling light, for example when I take the megabus to Amsterdam in Septamber. I'm...
I woke up today still feeling rough, although I’d slept better I still had a cold and I was weak, achy and to be honest feeling a bit down. Even sitting in Caffe Nero enjoying my normal morning routine I didn’t feel right, maybe I was missing my friends, maybe...
This post documents a superb circular walk around London, following mostly waterways, that I did with my eldest daughter, Steph, during August. The weather was fantastic, London was heaving with people, but we experienced a different tranquil, fascinating side to London that was new to me. I highly recommend this...
Last night my alarm clock’s radio switched on all by itself, three times, between around midnight and 2am! The last time it switched on I noticed it humming in tune with my iPhone, so my hypothesis is that the iPhone was too close to the radio’s relay switch and was...
Since I’ve been retired I’ve been very active, I might even say ‘busy’ but not busy enough to stop me washing my car. I did it today for the second time in the last couple of months, which is probably more than I’d previously managed in the last two decades. ...
Last night Debbie and I took Steph to Manchester Airport’s Hilton Hotel and she left the UK at about 7am after waking at 4am. I did the driving and started with a migraine just before we left which meant that I needed to take my ‘survive the worst’ cocktail of...