Here are some extracts from a recent Office for National statistics report. Not very positive but perhaps a timely reminder to take back control of our lives: watch the diet, do a bit more exercise, make more contacts with friends,…
During the Covid pandemic, lots of jobs moved to remote home-working but now employers want more people back where they can see them. For disabled people, such moves can create serious limitations: the struggle to travel; negative impact on health;…
The latest Office for national Statistics data (Healthy life expectancy, UK – Office for National Statistics) makes grim reading for everyone and worse for women. Our expectations of living well seem to be going south. “In 2022 to 2024: Males…
Not quite singing for my supper but I was talking for my lunch last week at the Lee-on-the-Solent golf club with a fascinating group of very welcoming local ladies. One lived just around the corner, another had served with the…
If, like me, you ever served in Naples with NATO, you may remember the big AFSOUTH HQ on the mainland. We Navy-types had our own separate COMNAVSOUTH HQ on the tiny island of Nisida – just down the road, past…
Yes, I do flower arranging too. Here’s a simple hand-tied posy which works well with those hollow-stemmed tulips and daffodils. Just a bit of greenery and some tape to hold the lot together. Simple! And January is the time to…
I spent many very happy summer holidays in Rye (in Sussex) where my grandmother and aunt lived for many years. Days of exploring the little historic town that sits atop a hill rising from the river flood plains. It has…
Catering for 9 here went like clockwork thanks to the “Christmas made easy” booklet. All hot, delicious and on time. And that was while struggling with the latest cold/flu/whatever is making the rounds. But the disaster struck on Sunday 28th:…
Tracks of my life. I think it’s a bit like Desert Island Discs for us who can’t see. Me nattering on about my life with some of the music of memories. I’m looking forward to hearing it for the first…
Bought two big bags of black cocoa recently to use in making the homemade drinking chocolate. Cocoa makes the smallest proportion after real chocolate and powdered milk. But the impact of this processed black variety seems to have been devastating…
