I haven't written anything on here for a long time. Where have I been? Can't say I have been on a worldwide adventure or a successful book tour. Sure, I star...

Blackpool Tower in Lancashire was inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Opened to the public in May 1894 it is 518 feet tall, contains 2,493 tons of steel ...

Came across this in Lucerne, Switzerland. It is a memorial to Swiss soldiers. They fought and died for what they believed was right and people are rightly pr...

The idea of living in a tiny castle on a tiny island in a huge loch can sound appealing. We might sit in front of our laptop or in traffic or listening to a...

I'd never been to Malta. I knew virtually nothing about the island. Recently, I went there for a week. It was such a fascinating place. Yes, this is the famo...

We've been hearing all week about the beast from the East. Now, we are awaiting a storm, perhaps a lout from the South. Who knows what pest from the West mig...

Have you noticed how people have recently begun to start their sentences with 'So'? If you ask them a question concerning just about anything they will launc...

Well, if someone wanted to use a lyric from my song as a title for their book, I would be delighted and take it as a compliment. Now, I get that the one who w...

If you had been with me the day I visited Cordoba, Spain, and stood outside the mosque cathedral, you would never forget it. Inside the most gloriously built...

You can write lots of fluffy blogs about flowers, beaches, even babies. You can share photos of smiling people, sunny days, wonderful scenes. Yet no one real...

This is the Parthenon. It towers on the top of the Acropolis and dominates Athens. Was it built to glorify man through his gods or the gods through man? It i...

Mother ducks seem to stay quite close by their babies, but not so close that the ducklings don't get a chance to spread their wings and waddle their bots. If...

People often use the phrase, 'at the end of the day' before launching into what we should think, 'after all is said and done'. It might sound a bit overused,...

In this blurred photo, you may just be able to see my grandog's nose peeping out from under the cupboard door. He does this whenever we watch sport. I think w...

I now have four sinks in my garden that house a variety of plants. My latest additions hold herbs and lettuce. This isn't really me, but I have so enjoyed po...

This view will have been looked at through this same window for hundreds of years. For someone, this view may represent sanctuary, a refuge, even a home. Fo...

Ben Lomond looks quite small in this photo. Yet, for all that, strangely comforting. Close up, a mountain can be daunting and majestic. There is something tr...

I came across these two empty deckchairs in Regent's Park. They look pretty much like they could be from any time in recent or not so recent history. They ar...

We say we would like to know where the right track is before we can begin to follow it, before we have a hope of staying on it. Do we apply for that job? Do w...

Sometimes when clouds gather in our lives we think there is no hint of the sunshine breaking through any time soon. Yet, as you can see if you study this pho...