February can never contain a blue moon because the time it takes the Moon to make an orbit of Earth and for it to complete a cycle of its phases are both longer than there are days in that month. The Moon is full because it is directly opposite the sun, so it is fun …
Book Review of Henry Williamson’s Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
This ambitious project has taken me a year to complete, and then not entirely as I skipped a couple of volumes in order to complete the reading and review. It was through Jez at Exeter Central Library that I came across this series and it deserves much wider recognition. Here it is: Book Review of …
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Honiton Revisited – a fresh (er…no I just missed a month!) series of items for publication on my website blog
w/e 23 July 2023 (posted after the August one...;-)) Hot Penny Day. Well, the last time I attended this annual event in Honiton was on a wet day and when life was not so good…and I remember thinking, “what on earth am I doing here?” Since then, there have been many changes, and this …
w/e 6 August 2023
This week I took a trip into the city of Exeter to catch up with a friend and to return a library book. I do not miss the roughness of Sidwell Street at all. Exeter was noisy, busy and grubby. The central library is a jewel though and my friend and I enjoyed a …
May Reflection
The first of the month was actually on the Bank Holiday Monday or ‘May Day’ as it used to be called. Not sure when it stopped being called May Day. At primary school we were fortunate to have a maypole around which we danced on the warm spring grass. It is one of my …
April Reflections
With Easter falling towards the beginning of this month, the month began with a hefty amount of baking. I tried again to make a traditional Greek Easter loaf which involves plaiting strands of dough. It was a little more successful than a previous attempt, but not by much. The pretty boiled eggs placed within it …
February Reflections
There were many reports at the beginning of this month about labour shortages, over 55s taking early retirement, furloughed people and working-from-home-during-the-Pandemic people not returning to offices, and an increase in the number of people claiming benefits. I am among the many feeling aggrieved by the rise in the state pension age…my formal retirement …
January Reflections
This month saw me settle back into Honiton where I had lived for a few years prior to moving to Exeter. It felt like coming home and I received a warm welcome from people who recognised me. Having moved in just before Christmas meant there was a delay before getting work done on the …
Joy of Joys
Oh, joy of joys, I thought, as my hand felt the radiator and it was Hot. Very hot. Yesterday, the rental cottage was cold and we had so much washing from our holiday and recent move. We left our old house, it has to be said with a sigh of relief, as it was old …
Space Day
Enjoyed a really great day at the Hive in Worcester where there were many exhibitors including myself, showing spacey things, talking space and loving every minute of it! People loved my activity of putting a sticky dot where they thought the solar system is in the Milky Way. That was on Saturday, today, Tuesday there …
Karen Hedges 