I did write a book a few years ago and it opens with this tale of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The book is still available at Amazon and a few other online stores. Even WH Smith in the UK used to have it! I was six years old; the year was 1953 and
I first posted this back in 2010. It is a little dated, but my apology in 2017 is much the same. I’m afraid I don’t change much from year to year. Maybe next year I’ll change the introduction a little. Please read on. I added the photo of the Pont Neuf so that the “What’s the pont?”
It was 2005 and Cheryl and I had owned our Mini Cooper S since early 2003. For a couple of years we had been towing that poor little car behind our motor home and traveling great distances. Cars behind motor homes suffer as they are bomarded with stone chips, mud and other debris kicked up by the
I received an email from an OLD friend the other day and I thought I’d post it here. I guess by the definition below that I’m older than dirt but I don’t [always] feel that way!
Originally posted to the blog on April 8th 2009 and edited April 7, 2016 to fix some links that had changed. A woman by the name of Jeanette reminded me of my world in 1969 and this blog post. The year is 1969 and I’m on the DEW Line at DYE-MAIN Cape Dyer on
Got Peeves? – I do! Some of these are yours, some are mine and many were simply stolen from other websites. People who don’t make the next pot of coffee. My pet peeve is people who mispell misspell. People Not Turning The Volume Off Their Keyboard While Texting. People Not Cleaning Up Their Dog’s Poop. People
Her Diary: Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a bar to have a drink. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it. Our conversation wasn’t flowing,
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not
An old friend emailed me this list. I was and am unable to find the author’s name. If you know who the writer is then please let me know. Believe it or not, the following 9 Things Will Disappear In Our Lifetime. Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we
There are so many TV channels, each starved of new programs. In a rural program for farmers, a female TV reporter seeking the main cause of Mad Cow disease, arranged for an interview with a farmer who may have some theories on the matter…. The interview was as follows: The lady reporter: “I am here