Creamy serendipity
It was the week before Christmas and shops were packed to the gunnels and yet, there I was, shopping cart at the ready and standing in a...
Educating Yuletide
As a young boy, my father lived in a town called Noupoort in the Cape Province of South Africa. His father was a cockney lad from London...
Fizzing woke woman
Donna Ashworth said something along these lines: "Don't go chasing an ideal of a woman you will never be ... start embracing she who is...
Mudlarking elver and bubbling mud
I have decided that in another life, I want to be a mudlark. Yup. Digging in the tidal mud on the Thames river searching for odds and...
Graduating golfers and Irish jiggers
A few days ago the local TV station had a discussion on strange foods that people enjoy, specifically foods that don't normally go...
Sailing away from pea green boats
I am spending money like a drunken sailor. Or is that offensive to sailors? No idea, but it's what my father used to say. And it is...
Murderous fairies
I have no idea if my parents or grandmother read us stories about fairies. And I have no idea why they inhabited my life as a little...
Memorable moments
What do the medical people put into these antiviral tablets? Bitter aloe? with a touch of really bitter aloe? I cannot get the taste out...
Some days are diamonds, some days are hot black stones
It is cold and wet here in New Zealand and I am craving a warm swim in a temperate pool, or even a bubbing hot pool would be good....
Pinching giants and handsome trolls
Thanks to the amazing people who took me up on the offer of a free book. 73 of you. And I do hope you all enjoyed my ramblings. My eldest...
