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A Few Beers and A Curry - A City Pub Crawl
It was Tony's birthday on Thursday so he booked the day off work, we met at Walsall station at midday and caught the train to Birmingham.Our first stop was The Old Joint Stock, a studio theatre and pub...
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The Windmills of my Mind
After Thursday's shenanigans, we spent Friday sorting a few tasks out. Jon did the online check-in for our flights, watered the houseplants and shopped around for new boiler insurance whilst I...
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Illustrious Ancestors, Charity Shop Finds and A Night Out
 After Monday's Wii Fit workout, I ironed the stock I'd washed the previous day and, after breakfast when Jon had left to do the post office and supermarket run, I wrote some eBay listings and started...
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Winter Walks - Charlecote Park
We'd not been on a National trust visit for almost three weeks so, on Thursday, we headed off to Charlecote Park in The Cotswolds, normally a forty-five-minute drive away from home, however, Lord Jon...
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There Goes The Weekend!
 Friday was eBay day so, after my Wii Fit workout, breakfast and some parcel wrapping, I ironed some stock and wrote descriptions. When Jon got back from the Post Office run, he took the photos and,...
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Lost Treasure & A Trip To Paris
Monday was St Valentine's Day and, unusually for us and without any prior discussion, we both bought each other a card rather than making one ourselves. The day started with a Wii Fit workout, a...
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A Trip To Tewkesbury
With violent storms forecast for later in the day, on Wednesday we were on the road at just after 9am arriving at our destination, Tewkesbury, forty minutes later. A Mediaeval market town in the county...
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Cemetary Gates
A dreaded sunny snowy daySo I meet you at the cemetery gatesKeats and Yeats are on your sideWhile Wilde is on mineSo we go inside and we gravely read the stonesAll those people, all those livesWhere...
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Stormy Weather
 Our favourite Black Country town was a hive of activity when we popped over on Thursday morning. With Storm Dudley on his way out and Storm Eunice imminent, the public had been advised to stay in on...
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I Felt The Earth Move
After Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin, on Monday night Walsall was shaken by an earthquake - not as big as the Dudley one of 2002 but unsettling nonetheless.On Tuesday I donned my 1960s tissue silk...
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Viva Espania! Alicante Part I
Hola! We're back from a cheeky few days spent in sunny Spain! Like most good ideas, our trip started after a random conversation over a few beers in 'Spoons with Jon desperate for some Winter warmth,...
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Viva Espania! Museums and Mushrooms
After Monday night's session on the Cruzcampo Reserva, which my friend Michelle informs me is a whopping 6.4%, my pounding head meant that I was up late on Tuesday morning, leaving the boys to find...
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Viva Espania! Castles in the Sky
I started Wednesday with a clear head and a delicious breakfast of pan con tomate (tomatoes on toast, drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt) with a cafe con leche. The boys suggested we...
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Viva Espania! Taking the Tram to Altea
 Thursday started for Tony & me with a tortilla (omelette with pan-fried potatoes and onion), whilst Jon stuck to his favourite broken eggs and ham eaten in the cafe we'd eaten breakfast in...
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Viva Espania - The Finale
 The rain persisted throughout the night and when we got up on Friday morning it was running in rivulets down the pavement below our balcony. We packed our bags and headed back to our usual place for...
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Buy, Buy Baby - A Week in Secondhand Finds
Thank you so much for the lovely comments on my travel posts and, after our glorious escape it's back to normality, festival planning, eBay selling, cat wrangling, reading and watching stuff, wearing...
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Can't Stop The Spring
Sunday started, as it usually does, with mugs of tea in bed and an hour or so of reading. Breakfast was toast eaten whilst watching the Sophie Rayworth Show. My elderly PC had packed up during the week...
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Stoneywell, Arts And Crafts Splendour in Rural Leicestershire
A National Trust adventure was long overdue and, now most of the properties have reopened after their winter break, we headed to the East Midlands to explore a property my friend Aril had alerted me...
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Charity Shopping, Films and a Trip to the Priory
Wednesday was a complete washout with incessant rain all day so we took ourselves off to the cinema and joined nine other people for the matinee performance of the The Duke which we absolutely loved -...
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In The Swim
 It was a frosty start to the week, I had to break the ice in the birdbath when I dashed outside to collect the weekend sales from the Kinky shed on Monday morning. After my Wii Fit workout I packaged...
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