High Street compared to Online Shopping

Like to shop both on the high street and online but if im looking for good prices, information and reviews of what i want to buy and something different ..probably will look online. But shops are definitly better for seeing products that you need to touch and feel and try on. High Street Shopping for me around peak times like Christmas especially with […]

Tonttu-Ukko

An unusual gift or house warming present – a Scandinavian Tonttu-Ukko (Tomte or Nisse). Rumored to bring wealth and prosperity to your home and family Tonttu-Ukko was believed to take care of a farmer’s home and children and protect them from misfortune in particular at night, when the house folk were asleep. Despite smallness, Tonttu-Ukko […]

Our cat..

Kenny has been in the wars and this is to make him smile

Save The Arctic

Save the Arctic home of the Polar Bears. Please declare the Arctic a Global Sanctury. In the last 30 years, we’ve lost three quarters of the floating ice cap at the top of the World. The melting Arctic is under threat from oil drilling. Please read about it and do something, before it’s too late

almost midsummer’s eve

Dancing in the rain

You can sit inside so long watching the rain then you must stop hoping the clouds will blow away, pull on your wellies and jump in the puddles. “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass .. dance in the rain” Vivanne Grenne

Kenny on the chest of drawers

An old photo of Kenny on the chest of drawers

Fishy Town

Brighton, a seaside town with heart of Green has two Universities and an Art and Media College with much talent and all around, much Graffiti Art but – not everything is what it seems.

J J Cale – Cloudy Day

Kelp, Legendary pirate queen Granuaile, O’Flahertys

Posted this while ago but beautiful part of Ireland – the furthest west you can go before you fall into the sea. Driving around where we were staying in Ireland, noticed close to the road – a ruined castle left sleeping beneath Dunn Hill and on the other side – a derelict factory, roof missing. […]

Global Warming has happened before (and so have Dinosaurs)

There may be a link between the geomagnetic field and catastrophic climate at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. (P.E.T.M.) Scientists have been predicting we are possibly going to experience a flip of the north and south poles – nobody knows when for sure. This has happened before and ‘about’ may be a loose term and refer […]

‘Harvest of Tea’

Halloween, hang cobwebs across rooms and leave a hand here or there but most scary thing is nighttime slugs that make their way under a door where coal cellar used to be. We throw them out but they come back. To get under doors they must stretch themselves until very thin and long and have […]

Snoopy Wisdom

Rock Balance

Human

Chano Sanchez

Snow

Little Piggie goes to Lanark Market and….

River Seine – Île de la Cité

This photograph of perhaps Pont Neuf was taken on way back from Hôtel-Dieu where visiting a friend very unwell at the time and was taking long way home to watch life on the river through central Paris. They got better. In the summer people come down here to sunbathe and people watch, leaning against these […]