Goodbye summer.
Goodbye summer, goodbye fair-weather walkers Last night my daughter, her husband and I went to watch the fireworks in Harlingen which...
You can have it all....
That was the line spun to girls back in the 1980s when I was still at school and people tried to tell us that the age of the woman had...
28 years and counting
28 years ago, today on 2 July 1990 my family and I turned the key in the door of our house in the seaside town of Harlingen and...
From Murphy to you...
Something a little different this month, a letter from Murphy... Hello …I am Murphy and I am special. Why? Because I am a dog who is...
Footprints
I realise it’s almost unavoidable, we all create rubbish. That’s down to the way we live but we can all do little things to reduce the...
Pride.
It’s the pride parade in town today. There’s going to be a parade of boats through the canals and a big after party lasting into the wee...
Negative Nelly
Negative Nelly Don’t get me wrong everyone is entitled to a good moan or a rant about things from time to time. If it were banned I would...
And breathe....
No ranting from me this month or not in this blog entry anyway. Instead something someone said resonated with me and I thought I would...
But he told me to do it
I grew up with three brothers so when one of us got caught for doing something naughty there was always a handy scapegoat to point at and...
Liar liar pants on fire..
Remember the taunts at school if someone was caught telling tales? The chanting would break out and ripple across the playground ‘liar,...
