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As if learning how to be a skilled boat handler and studying for a VHF radio operator’s license wasn’t enough, I was also getting myself involved in music again. Somebody was producing a music hall in Luxembourg and I was asked if I could make a recording of the show and produce cassettes for...

Norman - When you were peeing a lot, did you drink a lot as well? I had the same symptoms but I made the greatest error of drinking a lot of Tropicana fruit juices. Afterwards I looked at the sugar/carbs content and realised that this was the worst thing possible for a diabetic to drink. When I...

There’s been a bit of a delay but my wife decided that we should clear out the cellar and do a bit of painting down there before our Californian friends arrive in May. We leave next week for Normandy to spend a few days with my cousin and then we take the ferry to Dover to spend a few days with...

Cavelioness, I'm going to disagree with you on the definition of chick lit. :D I wouldn't describe Jean M. Auel's books as chick lit. That's a phrase that sends most men screaming to the pub. You've never seen a man read Bridget Jones, have you? I've read all her books and thoroughly enjoyed...

During our early years in Luxembourg we seemed to spend our holidays on various islands. We returned to one of my favourites, Guernsey. To get there from Luxembourg we had to drive to St Malo in Brittany and take the hydrofoil to Guernsey. You couldn’t take your car on this vessel so we had to...

As a voracious reader since the time of the dinosaurs I read virtually anything that grabs my interest. I've also promised myself that one of my retirement tasks is to catch up on the classics that I've somehow managed to miss during all these years. So I can say in all honesty that over the...

There are two journeys that we made which are strongly linked, although they took place almost 30 years apart. One was to Munich and the other to Israel. And they were, indirectly, triggered by those horrific newsreels I saw as a 7 year old showing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps...

Towards the end of the ‘60s I was invited to write a monthly column for a magazine that was being established for GIs and their families. There wasn’t a conflict of interest for me as I was working as a printer on the paper and as a writer on a freelance basis for the magazine so I quickly said...

I was browsing through the online version of the Daily Mail today when I came across the story about the vastly obese family who sit on their behinds all day watching TV and stuffing their faces. They were trying to justify their bone idle lifestyle and one of the daughters remarked that her...

Cave Lioness - that had me literally laughing out loud. Thanks for the best laugh I've had in weeks. Bill

Aaarghh!! I composed a longish post and then when I clicked on "Submit" I got a screen saying I had to login. I thought I had. So I logged in again and found that all my hard work had vanished into cyberspace - never to be found again. Anyway, carry on regardless. Sue, what kind of eye op did...

The magical karst mountains in Guilin, China.

I think I should follow my wife's suggestion and fill in a couple of gaps. She is of the opinion that I've omitted a couple of interesting tales. In 1942, when I was a few months short of my 5th birthday I came down with a really severe case of whooping cough. I was barely aware of it, but my...

Ian, I was thinking about Old Man River which, as you well know, was one of Robeson's greatest hits, and it struck me that when Oscar Hammerstein wrote the lyrics to that song he expressed all the misery and despair of a black man's life in the Deep South with just one line. When he wrote, "I'm...

It's warmer in Luxembourg as well. Today I ignored my exercise bike, drove down to the town of Remich, parked the car about 15 minutes outside the town and took a brisk walk along the northern bank of the Moselle. I bought a Daily Telegraph, had a cup of coffee, and then took a brisk walk back...

We travelled widely while we were living in Germany. I have an Austrian friend who lives in Innsbruck and we drove down to see him many times.He used to take a few days' holiday when we arrived and we would take off. One time we headed for Berchtesgaden in southeast Bavaria as I had always...

Dear me, I got the wrong picture. Sorry about that, Sue. That was the outdoor pool (yes, there's an indoor one, as well) at Hearst Castle in California. He was fabulously wealthy, even wealthier than Cherry Blair. :lol:

Ever since the war years when "national margarine" was on our menus I haven't eaten margarine. The wartime stuff tasted like a cross between whale blubber and axle grease.

Thought you might like to see the new swimming pool we've installed in our garden.

Hana. you're my hero. I hate margarine (ever since the war years) and love butter. Together we'll conquer the world. :lol: