Category Archives: General

Do you recycle?

We should all want to protect the environment. Right? Why is it so difficult to recycle certain items? There are a myriad of plastic packaging that cannot be recycled in the UK. Single use plastic should be made illegal in … Continue reading

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Wait, it’s nearly April?

My good intentioned plans for posting in 2016 dried up as quickly as it started. My writing/editing of the novel I began writing in 1923 (seems that long ago) almost started. Almost. Over the lasts few weeks I’ve given myself a … Continue reading

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Have you eaten all your bananas?

On my non-working days, I spend my breakfast time catching up with news (okay, I start with sports news before hitting the serious stuff) and I came across an article on the good old BBC website. The title of the … Continue reading

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Space. The Final Obsession …

If you’ve been here a while then you know I have an obsession a fascination with space. Whether it be the Mars One project, which my wife would probably still like me to try to gatecrash or the current fascination amongst the … Continue reading

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Out with the old …

You might think, who has this shiny new blog? You might not! When I started blogging back in 2011 I asked my writing group which platform I should choose. A couple of them had been with blogger, didn’t like it and recommended the … Continue reading

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