Life of a Fifty-Something Yorkshireman

    The full moon rising in Hornsea, East Yorkshire (Saturday 29th) A glorious sunny day in East Yorkshire on Saturday allowed the gra...

Prompted by a weird text from my friend Linda who admitted to having eaten a frog and squid in her life (yeuk!), I just wondered what was th...

I don't have a bucket list, (things to do before you 'kick the bucket') but there are some things I would love to do and one...

Barbed wire and the shadow of the imposing guard tower discouraging escape What a fabulous late summer weather we are having here in ...

An unusual solar event tonight - a blue moon. Now in my ignorance I imagined I would be going out to see a blue moon - literally, a blue ...

This is my 473rd post. Nothing particularly significant in that as such, however this was the year in which Leo the First granted his six...

Hello fellow bloggers and blog readers. It's been nearly a fortnight since I blogged; I seem to be only blogging at weekends becaus...

A delicate beautiful begonia from my hanging basket outside the front door I'm not a big TV viewer to be honest, but I've been ...

It's been a pleasant week weather wise culminating in a very good opening presentation of the 30th Olympiad, the London 2012 Olympic ga...

A bee on my dahlia flower this morning Pyracantha will be familiar to some gardeners; it's a shrub which has beautiful cream or whi...