In early March, seeds were sown for Broad Beans, broccoli, beetroot, onions, sweet peas and a good number of other flowers and vegetables. The plan was to sow into recycled paper pots, the sort that can be made at home with a former and then to carefully tend in the shed until the growing seedlings [...]
Article taken from the County Post, Times-Herald Newspaper, W/E June 8, 1973 In our mid twenties, both myself and my late uncle Mick Moss, were motor racing at Lydden Hill race circuit, Kent. Me marshalling cars onto the start line and time keeping, him charging round in a Mini. I had no idea he’d been [...]
Its the weekend kids! What shall we do? This was the question I asked of my two girls earlier this morning. The younger just smiled and then giggled at me, before being overwhelmingly distracted by Playdoh – and disappeared into the dining room. The elder rarely knows the answer to such a profound question and [...]
Its been an age since I’ve done this! I was eager to head out with the camera today, to capture a late Autumn scene with a particular kind of shot in mind. I’ve been inspired by the cold, frosty and misty weather we’ve been having recently, but armed only with phone camera, most of the [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Becky, I and the kids were to be out at lunchtime. The thought of having both a three-year-old and five-year-old hungry and weary in the back of the car drove me to find somewhere suitable to eat and drink. I wasn’t interested in the usual kid-friendly chain restaurant – I [...]
Given the opportunity to ignore a small spider or even pick it up and put it outside, the females in our household will invariably run around in varying states of hysteria looking for an available hero to assist. I am therefore the relocation relocation relocation expert of our squatting arachnids – skills which become ever [...]
I am a bid manager. During the day and frequently after dark, I can be found managing bids for a communications company in Essex, UK. Occasionally I'm not and I most enjoy activities involving the outdoors. Walking. Cycling. Photography. Gardening. But life is dominated by arachophobic females.