Monthly Archives: March 2020
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Posted: March 14, 2020Read more »
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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Posted: March 14, 2020Read more »
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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Posted: March 04, 2020Read more »
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...