Life of a Fifty-Something Yorkshireman

Am I alone in thinking that Mansfield (UK) schoolteacher Peter Harvey was driven to hit a pupil under what now appears to have been proven t...

Woken to rain this morning, and after I had spent a whole night watering the grass (with a sprinkler!) Perhaps I should have watched the wea...

A very pleasant warm balmy day today allowed me to spend some leisure time in the garden potting some plants up that had come through the po...

A three hundred and thirty two miles round trip to Colwyn Bay in North Wales today to go to a meeting was a pleasant distraction. Three and ...

The greenhouse heater has been lit for the last few nights and tonight is forecast a frost which just shows even though days are longer and ...

The weekend is upon us and it promises to be warm and balmy on Saturday and half decent on Sunday. The youngest son is on his way back to u...

I hope the week is treating you well and by the time you read this I hope that I've won the triple Lottery rollover of £17,000,000. I wi...

What a fabulous Saturday; I've just taken a break from being in the garden all morning. In fact, I've been in the garden most evenin...

I rang my wife at home today to tell her that I am being sent on a couple of residential courses at work. The first is in County Durham and ...

I thought I'd do a film review for you. It's been a quiet Easter this year with poor weather and with nothing much on, I've spen...