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When Christmas morning starts with a sky this blue, it would be sacrilege to waste the day getting hot and bothered in a kitchen.  Tra...

The mince pies are made, the truffles are in the fridge and the gingerbread was finished off days ago.  Christmas day is a normal working da...

At the weekend the rain clouds retreated and the sun came out again.  After a week of urban walking it was a chance to get back to the ...

Thanks to  Helen  and  Alan  for pointing out that there is an Irish folk song with the Mountain Strawberry (arbutus) tree in the ti...

We are coming up to our first Christmas in Turkey for 13 years and I'm in a quandary over what kind of tree to put up.  In the pa...

Looking back over the last few months' posts, a stranger to Bodrum would assume that apart from walking, there wasn't much to do ...

In  October I wrote that despite tree clearance and a new road  being driven through the ex-forest next to our house, the forestry work...

Walking behind this couple today, I reflected that we might look like this in 5 years time if fate is kind to us.  I wouldn't min...

I wasn't a very good archaeologist. I preferred the theory as most of the practice involved getting wet, muddy and cold with little c...

One of the joys of my recent "retirement" is sorting through my very dusty bookshelves and coming up with a gem I had forgotte...