Day 70 - The sun was shining in through the windows this morning. We are into the last few days of May. The Works of Fiction the forecasters got most of Mays weather correct . It has been the hottest Spring and the hottest May for years. Sitting out in the sun has become the norm. Walking has to be done early before the sun comes up. It is Saturday morning and June the first day of meteorological Summer is just a few days away. The next few days will remain warm. By mid -week the threat is for cooler weather . Life is still running along at a very odd pace . House Bingo has now replaced I Spy . Today I need to find house number 70. I thought the best place to find ... read more

Day 68 - another day of semi -lockdown . Test and Protect has started in Scotland . Track and Trace has started in England . Will that work ? Somehow we doubt it . Walking round a supermarket who have I been next to? I will not know them. How can I tell the NHS who I walked by, who I stood by, their names, their addresses and their phone numbers . It feels an ill thought out scheme . Premier League Football will be starting up again in a few weeks . After yesterdays news on closed dentists it seems they are opening on the 8th June . On the balance of probabilities do I believe any word that comes out of BoJos mouth ? No I don't especially when he brushes off questions when ... read more

Day 67 That was the week that was . I wonder what the panel of this show would make of the last week. Then there is Private Eye and Have I got news to you. The satirists would have had a field day over the last few days. It was gone 7am when I pulled myself out of bed. As each day passes by it feels increasingly hard to force myself out of bed. I might only be 10 mins later getting up or even half an hour but waking does feel different the later I set out. As I looked out of the window a dog walker stopped outside our house . He reminded me of a scene in France when the frenchman gets out of his car and wees up against the nearest tree. ... read more

"You must understand the whole of life not just a little part of it " so said Jiddu Krishnamurti . At the moment I don't understand most of it let along the whole of it. Covid 19 has made us all that way. We understand nothing much these days. I fell asleep last night thinking about motorhoming . It is a little over 8 years since we bought our first van and what adventures we have had since then. Apparently there are around 225,000 motorhomes and campervans in our small country . Add rather a lot more caravans and there are a lot of us probably feeling tied down and missing our vans. Motorhoming has become a lot more popular here over the years and we all will be looking for places to go once our ... read more

Two things came to mind today as I walked . On my own today. After all the exertion of walking yesterday Sion has decided not to join me . Walking though is perhaps the wrong word . He really did get carried round and yes he did fall asleep. He reminded me about castrated fish and the fact that I had to tell the story . It appears that the local gentry and more particularly one of Hunloke went off to Italy . Grand tour or not he found himself eating the finest fish he had ever tasted . He asked why it tasted so good and was told that the key was to castrate the fish . Castrated fish apparently and I cannot profess to having eaten castrated fish tastes so much better . Castrated ... read more