Do chickens burp?

When you look happily at a lovely piece of brie, chocolates or if you are a meat eater – steak – new research confirms that cows when they burp release significant amounts of methane – from the front not the back. Perhaps its something to do with double stomach. We do eat dairy but […]

Edward Bear and Wife – Coming home for Christmas

Same Moon

My mum told me she looked at the moon because the mum who raised her in another country told her she would be looking at the same moon and thinking of her

Still hope common sense and not pride will take over and we will stay in Europe

Winter – Black Forest National Park

to remember

to remember is to reflect, to reflect is for all our politicians to try their best, to bring about a peaceful World

Sunshine

Lewes Bonfire

We havn’t been to Lewes for a few years – but if your local, it will draw you back but the roads into Lewes shut very early and dont open again until middle of the night. Trains sometimes dont stop at Lewes on Bonfire Night – to discourage big crowds of people coming here […]

Right here

My mum spent a while in hospital and on the way in travelled in an ambulance and the ambulance drivers reallized how scared she was and gave her someones lost teddy bear. A lost bear but in the right place at the right time Lost? Im not lost, I know exactly where I am. Right […]

Hope is the thing with feathers

“Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops – at all And sweetest, in the gale – is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm I’ve heard it in the chillest […]

Sunrise

Royal Mail International Charges

Royal Mail Charges – a table to work out the cost It is little cheaper to wrap, weigh, print and pay for your shipping label at home (The cost of sending from UK internally and to elsewhere in the World)

Grapes

We have two maybe three small rows of red grapes – Chambourcin variety. The vines grow prolifically – wherever they touch the ground, they root. They were planted by a gentleman whose son was trading at the top of twin towers in New York. His sadness was always not far away. We inherited – raspberrys, […]

Fall back…

Dreaming

Tiny cabins in the woods

French Toll Roads, Swiss Vignette and ViaMichelin

Finally have some time and worked out how much spent on toll roads during a short road trip through France this summer – a lot, more than double the cost of a vignette for Switzerland valid for 6 months. Even more when you include the almost 3% interest rate my bank charged me for converting […]

Dolphins and Wind Turbines

From a newspaper we picked up on the ferry between France and England

Template maker for boxes and odd shaped gifts

Need to wrap an odd-shaped gift? Create a box for it! Measure it up, choose a design and print, fold and glue The templates may need scaling up to the size you need – either by measurement or graph paper

Dark nights and Hope

There is a saying, – the darkest hours are before the dawn – waking up a little before dawn wonder if this is true, sometimes long to hear the first bird signalling the dawn and other times when not looking forward to what the next day will bring – hope he stays in his nest […]

Etsy and Musefind

Discovered a new section in the admin side of Etsy – Integrations – with ‘tools that help you run, market, optimise and enhance your business’ and in this section was – Musefind, a free app which at first seemed wonderful opportunity to help find influencers to promote what you do.. but And there is always […]