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On a visit to Tetbury , the second largest town in the Cotswolds I decided to make a pit stop and parked my coach and horses appropriately. I then stepped into the 16th Century Britain to Halls the Cotswolds Bakery. I asked the owner for a black coffee and a piece of her best sellingContinue reading “Lardy Dah.”

The prospect of sons and daughters being called up for war featured in the Telegraph newspaper today. A mimic of the call of Lord Kitchener would have concerned many parents. We know that the Generals and certainly the Politicians remain in the Chateau but in reality there is much family fodder. Napoleon and Wellington wereContinue reading “It’s all Relative in love and War.”

Tom Jones immortalised the song of today’s blog title but on my morning constitutional on the 430 acres of Bristol Downs I stopped to write. As I wandered in body and mind I looked out across the 20 or more soccer pitches laid out ready for play , goal nets attached and lines marked out.Continue reading “The Green Green Grass of Home.”

The Clifton Bridge is not the only suspension in our lives these days. At the start of another week I found the extract below plagiarised/ stolen/ flattery to its author sums it up. The US Stock Market hit a record high on Friday. Yet around the globe the disconnect between euphoric markets and unhappy votersContinue reading “Another Week”

For many planet earth is like living on another planet these days. We hear of great ambitions of nations and the private sector to venture from earth in search of life, minerals , water and whatever on other planets. It seems however that the current initiative to exit and the business rationale might be noneContinue reading “Plan It Planet.”

Coined by a Travel Agency in 2005 as Blue Monday they labelled the third Monday in January as the most depressing day of the year. The good news ( though there is no cloud with silver lining in this sky above ) is that we have come out from that depressing day and it canContinue reading “Blue Monday”

Remember going to see a relative or friend and seeing a jigsaw laid out on their table usually unfinished. John Spilsbury in 1760 is credited for creating the first one. A puzzle rather like a crossword it entails fitting the individual shapes and sizes together to form the bigger picture. Our lives are the aggregateContinue reading “Life’s jigsaw.”

Yes the strap line is about crisis not a typo. When is a crisis a crisis or do some cry sissy or cry Wolf. Tonight the UK cabinet are meeting via telephone to consider military action. The Speaker of the House of Commons summoned ten minutes after the call. Meantime in Washington the Pentagon haveContinue reading “Cry sis.”

Forgive the blogger as he takes a walk of nostalgia to the old Wembley Stadium and the 5th May 1962. The prompt of this today is that both teams met again last Friday evening in the 3rd round of the FA Cup a repeat of the Final in 1962 ( nearly 62 years on ).Continue reading “Tottenham Hotspur v Burnley”

Though never mentioned in the Bible tomorrow legend has it that three wise kings arrive to see baby Jesus. It is the Epiphany and tonight is the twelfth night of Christmas. The legend is largesse as it accompanied by the star over Bethlehem. We know at the time of the birth astronomers have deduced thatContinue reading “Three Wise…..”