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I'm baaaaaaaaaack

and what a palaver. I zooted off to Germany to buy cigs, as one does. Very cheap flights, very cheap hotel which it turned out was mainly for people w...
1,514340Aug 2016Aug 2016Apr 23

Is there a new way to market stuff?

Oh I know my timing sucks, the weekend and all, I should have asked when you all had your business brains on. Still, those who haven't disconnected th...
1,610560Aug 2016Aug 2016Apr 23

Older, wiser, seasoned, mature, mellowed. No comme

I made this list for myself a couple of years ago, and most of it is a non-brainer. DO NOT FEAR. Fear is so desperately crippling, and the media o...
642-0Aug 2016Aug 2016Apr 20

It's been a long day

I need one of those hugs that turn into sex....
3,3061710Aug 2016Aug 201613 hrs ago

Olympic wasteland

I've been wondering why it was so quiet on the blogs and forums and duh, Olympics! International event, every CS member has a team striving to do thei...
1,579380Aug 2016Aug 2016Apr 24

Social behaviour - a wee rant

I know I’m going to offend some people with this but here are a few things that make me look as though I’m sucking a lemon, okay? The people doing the...
2,382830Jul 2016Jul 201614 hrs ago

SMUGGLING

Old joke - I hate people who take drugs. Like Customs officials. Smuggling is bad, smuggling affects the economy of your country, it's a naughty t...
1,429320Jul 2016Jul 20168 hrs ago

Murder Most Foul

I have, in my time, smothered, knifed, strangled, hanged, shot, poisoned and bludgeoned them to death. I have injected air bubbles into their arte...
2,8301210Jul 2016Jul 2016Apr 20

Long nails and the difference between men and wome

Typing this cautiously with freshly painted nails and I got to thinking while I painted them – why long nails? Originally they were worn by men a...
5,964940Jul 2016Jul 201612 hrs ago

How good has CS been to you?

We've all had our little grumbles in the past, scammers, miserable buggers raining on blog parades, but how good has CS really been for you? We've...
1,744570Jun 2016Jun 2016Apr 24

Riddle me this (gardener's corner) (turns UK polit

why is it when you need to pop into the house to get something for what you doing in the garden, and you scrape your shoes on the wire scraper, and th...
1,574470Jun 2016Jun 2016Apr 20

How odd is reading?

When you think about it, I mean. We write down odd symbols and other people look at those odd symbols and they make sense, create a conversation or a...
2,4831310Jun 2016Jun 2016Apr 22

come together, right now ... let's buy a place?

The link below leads you to an article on villages for sale in Spain. Yup, whole villages, and while few of us (any?) could afford one on our own, CS,...
3,0621190Jun 2016Jun 20167 hrs ago

Garden mayhem

Photos from my garden - I have no idea where to start. Or how. Clearing the path so Postman Pat can get through would probably be best but...
2,059760May 2016May 2016Apr 24

Breaking news

my dishwasher seems to be having a sort of a fit. It spat the dummy (ok, the dishwashing tablet) and has rinsed everything rather than washing it and...
1,592520May 2016May 2016Apr 20

What Frank said -

I love the old swing stuff but I don't know the words, it's before my time, I just like it in the background. Tonight Frank Sinatra sang something tha...
1,307470May 2016May 20163 hrs ago

Life plan

It’s taken a few years – okay, lots - but I finally know what I want. Sell more books. That opens up more options and funds everything else. Earni...
1,712590May 2016May 2016Apr 23

Today, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

A computer big enough to cover a city block in the 60s and 70s was less powerful than a modern laptop, and the phone is rapidly reaching full computer...
1,950300May 2016May 2016Apr 20

Stay digital after you die

Capturing your image on film has only been around since, effectively, 1839 and for the first 50 or so years you'd have had perhaps one photograph take...
1,259280May 2016May 201616 hrs ago

Vive la difference - Martian vs Venusian

Words with different Gender Specific Meanings 1. THINGY (thing-ee) n. Female...... Any part under a car's hood. Male..... The hook fastener on wo...
867330May 2016May 2016Apr 20

An introduction to fracking

There's talk of fracking starting down the road, 5 miles from where I live, and I thought what the frack is fracking? Will I like it? So I looked it u...
1,901740May 2016May 20161 hrs ago

Selling yourself (edited down to the boasts)

(Edited comment - the blog got 129 comments but some were just playing and some never did get the point. I promised to cut it down to the boasting pos...
2,333170May 2016May 2016Apr 20

Ginger nut

Being ginger is a bit like being a vampire. You can't go out in sun. You can't see yourself in a mirror, at least until you have painted on some featu...
2,016690May 2016May 201619 hrs ago

Happy birthday

Happy birthday to the blurred blogger, Mollybaby, have a fantabulous day and I hope you've taken it off work and are going to have a thoroughly awesom...
1,560620May 2016May 201621 hrs ago

I want a wife

Map's blog raised a subject I feel strongly on, and he's fine with me stealing the direction it took. I want a wife. A little woman to do the cook...
1,867980Apr 2016May 201616 hrs ago

In case no-one told you today

You are loved You are needed You are alive for a reason You are stronger than you think You are going to get through this I'm glad...
2,366730Apr 2016Apr 20161 hrs ago

Lastminute.don't!

Ok this is a cautionary tale because I reckon pretty much all of us have either used lastminute.com or thought about it. Right? Great deals. Well,...
1,813380Apr 2016Apr 2016Apr 25

This is me hard at work

I took a cup out of the dishwasher and thought ew, that's not very clean. Then I realized I hadn't actually done a load yet and disaster, I'm out of c...
1,644280Apr 2016Apr 2016Apr 20

Makes you proud to be British

When we put our minds to it, we can take stupid to an art form. BBC NORFOLK Stewart White: Who had a worldwide hit with What A Wonderful World?...
1,311220Apr 2016Apr 20161 hrs ago

What happens

when the chatty, friendly, very interactive singles website you belong to finds out you’ve been writing a book about a chatty friendly very interactiv...
1,932520Apr 2016Apr 2016Apr 20

Would you buy me a coffee?

This is a research question. Would you buy me a coffee for a couple of hours of conversation, with me doing all the talking? I say conversat...
2,026640Apr 2016Apr 2016Apr 25

Just call me Fred

Hello it’s me and I know, you don’t usually see me this time of day. Usually? Ever. I’m awake an hour earlier than usual because my good buddy / L...
1,719350Apr 2016Apr 20169 hrs ago

Indie publishing - a fact or two

Indie publishing 1) Write your book 2) Put it aside for a month. 3) Read it, self-edit, and if you think it is now ready, send it to a couple of...
946310Apr 2016Apr 2016Apr 20

First impression, please?

What do you think this book is about? It isn't published yet, this is the cover reveal, and if I knew what you saw, or failed to see, I would know how...
2,211680Apr 2016Apr 20165 hrs ago

How many April Fools have we got?

I joined the site two years ago, I can't remember the exact date but definitely around now. For sure within a week or two I got into a very exciting o...
1,108260Apr 2016Apr 2016Apr 20

It's a kind of magic ..

My car opens when I walk up to it. So long as my keys are in my pocket or my bag, I don't actually need them. I sometimes walk up to my front door and...
1,198370Mar 2016Mar 2016Apr 22

Spring at last

The spring equinox was on the 20th, our clocks sprang forward today and the sun is shining. Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the bi...
1,894510Mar 2016Mar 2016Apr 20

You can leave your hat on:

Yes yes you expect the video, post it yourself. Whichever version I chose, the blog would turn into an argument over which version was better, and thi...
2,029530Mar 2016Mar 2016Apr 24

Waiting to hear from the dog-sitter

Trouble with taking in a rescue dog, especially a neurotic older rescue dog, is that she hates kennels. She thinks she's been dumped again, she goes i...
2,830770Mar 2016Mar 201615 hrs ago

Leap year, baby! part 2

I was going to help all the ladies with a proposal in form but am really annoyed to find that neither my Debretts nor my Enquire Within offers any tem...
1,685390Feb 2016Feb 20163 hrs ago

Sneazles

Sudden rush of colds and flu and even - gasp - manflu around at the moment. So how do you cheer yourself up when your head feels like someone has pour...
1,978380Feb 2016Feb 2016Apr 24

The joys of living alone

Okay going to probably need a bit of help here, listing those joys. However I just ate a garlic and herb flatbread and that is definitely one of t...
1,987480Feb 2016Feb 20168 hrs ago

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