Choux experiment.
It took four of us: Karen the high priestess of the kitchen, Kathy the super-gardener, Will who’s another blind veteran and muggins here, to make choux buns for lunch. It was all highly experimental with one pre-made batch of raw…
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Just three things …
Firstly, here’s the link to my Radio Victory interview last week: Look for Sunday’s ‘Between the Lines’ (15th March ’26) I start at about minute 16. Might be useful for anyone who is facing a life-changing health condition. …
Loose end Sunday 15 March at 1800
If you’ve nothing better to do Sunday 6pm (for landlubbers!) you could listen to my latest interview on Radio Victory. To listen online click on the link below: DAB+ and Online : Radio like it used to be!…
Tackle longer but lonelier, less healthy and less happy lives.
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,…
Who said that being back in the workplace was best?
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;…
Healthy life-expectancy starting to nose-dive?
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…
Ladies who lunch.
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…
National year of reading: another John Steinbeck recommendation
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…
Even a blind person…
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…
E.F Benson Mapp and Lucia series.
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…