Joy of joys I discovered that the ice-skating world championships are available via BBC iplayer. What a shame they are not broadcast on mainstream TV, so much talent on display, not least from the two British teams 😊. Given my love for the Moon, I am surprised that the news of a successful …
w/e 29 March
And another thing says the grumpy old woman…why oh why are we persisting with ‘putting the clocks forward’. There is much evidence as to its disruptive nature and I, for one, really rail against the mismatch between the time and the solar position. All of a sudden, we are catapulted into lighter evenings while …
Riding the Rails
w/e 22 March – Riding the Rails This week’s bulletin is all about the long weekend from Friday to Monday, so strictly speaking this is w/e 23 March! ‘Busy’. That is the one word which sums up the area we visited. Busy, built up, and big. It was bewildering as so much had …
w/e 15 March
Saddened by reading on the BBC News website that hereditary peers are to be phased out. They are politically neutral, have inherited lots of land and property many of whom have given a lot to society over the years, and by being in the House of Lords I think instils a sense of having …
International Women’s Day
Can't do better than to include my report from last night's performance of Carmen by the amazing Iryna Ilnytska: EXETER OPERA GROUP ‘CARMEN’ AT TEIGNMOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL “It can’t get better than this!” exclaimed Barry. And yet, each performance by this talented group of singers does get better each time. From the opening bars of …
1st March
It’s sobering to realise that last week saw the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. My poor Ukrainian friend saw her family home in the Donetsk area, bombed, could not visit her parents there but had to go to Kiev, had a daughter, married, all without her family on hand. She fundraises tirelessly for …
w/e 22 February
I am a lizard. At last! The sun has climbed high enough up in the sky to beam into our little sunlounge. Where lounging in the sun has to be done. It is so nice to feel the warmth of the sun on one’s back when out for a stroll. More and more flowers …
w/e 15 February
It is with disbelief that I read that 2026 is the National Year of Reading, at a time when local libraries are under threat of closure. The world has gone mad. School libraries have long been an issue with hours cut, staff expected to run the library ‘in their spare time’ or with volunteers. …
w/e 8 February
Well, the first week of February has been washed away...hopefully, life will become drier now that all the reservoirs are full to the brim, and overflowing. The potholes are like crater lakes these days. It is now two years' since getting about on crutches following a second foot operation to remove arthritis. And still struggling …
A great end to January and a brilliant start to February…
On the last evening of the very wet month, we enjoyed a ray of sunshine in the form of a celebratory concert of Mozart's music from Exeter Opera Group in Topsham. The singers, some of whom were not used to singing solos, performed bravely and magnificently. We were carried away on a sea of sound …
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