Monthly Archives: March 2020

  1. The Posties and Snappy Letterboxes – New Homes a Scourge of Postpersons’ Fingers

    The Posties and Snappy Letterboxes –

    New Homes a Scourge of Postpersons’ Fingers

    Now the postie is everyone’s friend, he or she brings us letters and parcels and who doesn’t love a missive or a packet? In rural areas they can be a lifeline to the outside world, although at the moment a spot of isolation may be thought a golden thing. And as I write not all is right with the world at all.  I remember...

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  2. Teenagers Behaving like Vampires? – Light Aversion Makes Sense

    Teenagers Behaving like Vampires? –

    Light Aversion Makes Sense

    Do you have a teenager, or do you remember having one? If so you’ll know all about light aversion.  They rise late, at the crack of 2 o’clock, or later, bleary eyed and grumpy. It is biological in many ways and not just slovenly teenagedom. It seems that you can’t grow except while you sleep so teens are sleepy by nature. And it seems...

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  3. The Milkman Always Rings Twice- Second Time Around for the Milk Bottle on the Doorstep

    The Milkman Always Rings Twice-

    Second Time Around for the Milk Bottle on the Doorstep

    Regular readers of this blog will remember that an older friend of the missus had a mum who once dated film legend Sean Connery when he was a humble milkman in the capital. When he got offered fame and fortune in the Great Wen of the south, AKA London, she decided it was too risky and married someone working in a...

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