In this post I will cover two areas.  First, the changes and adaptions I am considering for future events, both here, at venues where I am the host, and at venues when I am the guest teacher, such...

I think I just have one of those faces. No, not my resting piss-off face. I think I have a face, or maybe it’s body language, that makes people talk to me.  By which I don’t mean you, or...

As you know I don’t really keep a diary, except maybe this blog.  But if I did, the entirely truthful account of one day in October would definitely be part of it.  Very early, make way onto...

Snappy headline.  I missed my vocation as a sub-editor. I am going to suggest that you chip in a few quid for a very good cause.  This is where you donate.  Below, is just one story of why. So,...

(Some of this was drafted a while ago). Bank Holiday Monday:  this is the last day when I will live in the house without one or both of my children also living here. The last time I will peg out and...

As I review the blog section that houses conversations with Lily, I see there are fewer of them as time passes.  This is not a true reflection of real life as in fact I think we have more...

So, in all the years I have been blogging I have never (as far as I can remember) blogged about anything political.  No, for that you need to be be my friend on Face Book where I am more free with...

I have to tell you about this convo while it is fresh in my mind.  It is shocking!  Did you realise that (and maybe I am guilty, if anyone is, not Lily) that apparently, some *young people* never...

I am re-living this blog, because it is almost exactly the same time of year as Mark, Florence, Lily  and I went to Paris.  And I really wish I was there again.  Florence was ill and stayed in the...

Some caves are just too hard for me and I will never go there.  Some caves are just too hard for me, but somehow I end up there anyway.  Recently I have caved in two such places.  Longwood Swallet...