I used to do a lot of cross stitch pictures but now that my eyesight is not so good, I only do small ones and only in good daylight. It’s amazing how a picture is created with carefully chosen colours and stitches. Also, how the front is very neat but the back can look quite…

When I moved to Felixstowe seven and a half years ago one of my priorities was to find a church where I would feel comfortable. I tried a few and chose to attend Trinity. Eventually I officially became a member of the Methodist Church on Easter Sunday seven years ago. The Rev Diane was minister…

A shortened version of a message I read on Facebook goes like this: “A young woman watched her new neighbour hang out her washing and she complained to her husband that the clothes were not properly washed as they looked dirty. She considered telling her neighbour and was even going to offer her some washing…

I have decided to start my Spring cleaning. I was looking through a pile of old CD’s and I found one by Rita MacNeil which was released in 1990. I remember buying it because I really liked her song “Working Man” but the words of some of the other songs are really thoughtful. One in particular…

I had an appointment with my dentist on Tuesday as I needed to have a broken tooth extracted and a couple of fillings. Needless to say, I was not looking forward to this visit at all. All went well and I left the surgery with a gauze plug in my mouth which I had to…

Last Saturday I wrote about good friends and that I would be meeting up with them at a wedding. My husband and I had a wonderful time and it were as if it was only a few days since we had seen each other instead of years. It was lovely to see the new friendships…

Today my husband and I are attending a wedding in Surrey. We are very excited about it and have been looking forward to it for ages. The bride is the daughter of good friends who live in Northern Ireland. It is rather a poignant occasion as she was extremely ill when she was in her teens…

I was trying to think about what to write for today when I read an article about how beavers had built a 70-metre-long dam in Yorkshire. The natural barrier built by a family of beavers in Pickering is the largest dam in England and has saved the town’s population from being flooded. Since they were…

A few days ago, I was having a new boiler fitted. Obviously, there would be no water or heat for a number of hours. To prepare for this I filled buckets of water for the bathroom, made sure the kettle was full and various saucepans were filled with clean water. A small blow heater was…

I had never heard of the Greenland Shark until I read the book “The Golden Mole “They are the planet’s oldest vertebrate and quite recently scientists have discovered just how old. Some may live up to 500 years old. They live deep-down and secret lives preferring the bottom of the ocean where it is cold and…