Other nonsense

  • Diet Trial PART 2
    My tests came back with intolerances to yeast and egg white, so I am to avoid both for 4 weeks starting from the 15th June. The dietian said...
  • My London cake tins
    Caught sight of these and thought they were rather good.... My London set of cake tins, Angel Cake and Victoria sponge - £26.99 the pair. Av...
  • Gin is IT! - Penhaligon's Juniper Sling
    image: Juniper Sling - eau de toilette - Penhaligons © Next time I feel like reaching for the gin perhaps I might try a spritz of thi...
  • Sunday Poem - I Saw A Jolly Hunter by Charles Causley
    I Saw A Jolly Hunter I saw a jolly hunter  With a jolly gun  Walking in the country  In the jolly sun.  In the jolly meadow  Sat a jolly ...
  • Dealing with dinosaurs
    We have been offered a mortgage! We are taking the weekend to consider which one to go for so I am spending my time reading up on the pros a...
  • Advent Calendars 2024
    The past few Christmases I’ve made TheGR a beer advent.  A different beer for each day, wrapped and labelled.  But this year, I'm shoppi...
  • Broken Collarbone or Clavicle in child
    I’m sad, and I’ve broken Erbie. I have been rushing around like idiot, trying to fit in one last this and one last that before leavi...

Quote of the day

‘They tuck you up your mum and dad...’
Anon - after Larkin

“Philately will get you everywhere”
WEM

“It’s not the despair, I can handle the despair. 
It’s the hope I can’t deal with”
Clockwise

“Each new friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

‘Come on Dover move your bloomin’ arse’.
Eliza Doolittle