London Inspiration?!

       I don’t like companies who get hold of my mobile number and then try and sell me something I don’t want, or pretend they know what I ...

          A few years ago I bought a writers magazine for my daughter who was about to embark on a university course in creative writing. Ho...

There is always the danger, when researching a family history, of finding the proverbial ‘skeleton in the cupboard’. Fortunately, I don’t th...

This is a follow up to "Argghgh! London Traffic!" So the first trip to destination 8.9 miles from home through London at 10am Su...

Today it took us 75 minutes to drive 8.9 miles (14.3km)! That’s about from our old home in Howick, South Africa, to my daughter’s home in Hi...

Today was a beautiful Spring day: the skies were blue, the sun was bright, the daffodils nodded and the banks of the River Thames were inacc...

One nice thing about England are the many ‘public footpath’ signs, leading through farmlands, moors, alongside rivers and through woodlands....

So we were driving the 100miles back from a day out, windscreen wipers on, radio on, and I began to think ….. who was the first guy who call...

So Tuesday we did the family history tour! A little while ago I discovered that Dave’s maternal ancestors had lived and worked in Chelsea, a...

I know what I was doing 30 years ago today! 30 years ago today was a Sunday. It was the Sunday that the Lakeside Baptist Church was offici...

                 A short British TV program tonight aired the question of whether the children of today are too pressurised. Is there too mu...

Granny at Surfer's Corner, Muizenberg   Once upon a time, a long time ago, when my children were just two bricks and a tikkie h...

        So Prime Minister David Cameron has decided he needs to "measure the nation’s happiness". Basically what makes the peopl...

* Diamond sparkling spider-webs on emerald green hedges; * Motley group of scarf, hat and boot brigade waiting at the bus stop (and I know s...

London is notorious for overcrowding on public transport. I am so very, very thankful that I don't have to take a tube or train to get t...

Most peope who read blogs also write their own! So there's probably a huger number of 'authors'  than the books we see on the l...

It's amazing that there aren't more - or any - smashed computer screens sitting on our dumps! The number of "Error" messag...