While we were waiting for the washing machine repairman to come out I decided that we would start having a tidy up of the garden. After about 10 minutes I wish I had not bothered as we found a pile of sick….

Yes, I am still alive. I have just been very lazy in updating my blogs over the past month or so. I say “blogs” because I now have four of them. This one, one about making money online, one about music, and…

We mow the lawn and rake up leaves and debris. We may even pressure wash the driveway, the outside of our home, and we no doubt do our best to keep our home and its various areas maintained. But when was the…

I went for a run today. Any run that I do that is between 5-6 miles long I normally do along the canal, complete the Mile End Parkrun route, back along the canal, and then I make up whatever is left by…

This year’s Christmas wasn’t what everyone was hoping for. Coronavirus has done a number on the majority of us for the best part of the year, and then a week before the day we were all looking forward to we were told…

Have you ever noticed the amount of wooden pallets that are left discarded around your city or town on a daily basis? These cumbersome objects are normally left over from a large delivery (acting as the base) and because people find them…

The first thing I saw this morning was the hoopla that the new Sainsburys Christmas advert had created. It featured a black family singing a cheesy song about gravy and no white family in sight. Yep, that was enough to set off…

I was laying on the sofa when someone outside beeped their horn, it made the exact same noise as the horn of the ambulance that would drop my dad off from the hospital three times a week. The dog obviously remembered the…

Decorating has officially started. I have been threatening to do it for the last couple of years, but it didn’t feel right changing things in a flat that four years on I still look upon as Dad’s Flat. But I finally bit…