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This week, others have been harshing my mellow. Since I took early retirement a few years ago, each and every year I’ve had a percentage increase in my pension, often resulting in between £10 and £15 extra a month. For reasons known only to themselves,

This past week, the weather has been the pits! Last Sunday I came out of work to glorious sunshine, a nice breeze, and blue skies. Since then, the temperature has dropped like a stone and we’ve been ‘enjoying’ temperatures around 2C, and a frozen

Well, I’d written a blog last week, detailing my week, though was unable to post it so most of it seems a tad moot now. This new blog has been heavily edited. Last week I had my second dose of the Covid vaccine. A man this time and boy did I feel the

This week, my son turned 25. Where did the time go? He makes me feel old lol. We’re making an Indian meal – very mild chicken Malay (pineapple) curry for me, hot beef curry for my son, with samosas I’d made previously, and maybe I’ll make onion bhajis

The weather here has finally improved with sunshine aplenty, and warm days too that are great for drying laundry on the rigging. The downside of sunshine and dry conditions, is that certain neighbours have had a party, in their garden, that went on until