Category: My life & Thoughts

      We all probably know what Armistice Day is all about (The end of WWI. 11.11. 1918), the significance of  the poppy and what The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier represents (To...

    Growing up in Leeds, West Yorkshire, the heart of “The Rhubarb Triangle” (Nine square miles between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell, originally much larger, covering nearly thirty square miles, including Leeds, Bradford and...

    People are beginning to ask me; “Where is your blog, what happened?” Well, I rediscovered life! It all started with a dodgy Internet connection, which progressively became worse, to the point of,...

  Last week I had to make the worst decision of my life, a decision I was praying I would never have to make.  Our Pug Dog Maurice, a loved member of our family,...

  “Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” Brooks Atkinson    I’m filling in time; the...

   If you have been following my Christmas cake rigmarole (Parts I, II and II, links at the end of this post), you may have already guessed, I’m eating Christmas cake, morning, noon and...

   Most years, since my two children were born, we turned our backs on Greek Christmas and headed “Home” to Leeds. My daughter, Nais, pleaded with me to write a post about these happy times,...

  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, oh yes it is!  For the past couple of mornings, on surveying the world from my window, I had my suspicions about the silvery white...

  The things I do for my blog; I have a smart phone, why is this news? I swore I would never own one, that’s why. Apparently if you run a blog, they are...