Image Of Water On Mars

This post is about transparency when you’re blogging! When you’re a writer, you are effectively giving people a free peek into your life, and it is always balancing act when it comes to how much you can share without it being an invasion of your own privacy. I’m quite happy to share about my own…

December 6, like any day, is a significant day in history. Here are just a few of the things that have happened on December 6 over the years! 1421 – King Henry VI of England was born (died. 1471) 1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián…

The title of this post comes from one of my favorite quotes from Sir Winston Churchill: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I’ve taken up a challenge from Ange to list Seven Things About Me! She in turn took up the challenge from Diane at Much of a Muchness. Like Ange, I did piano lessons, but my teacher thought that my musical ability was more akin to that of a caveman loping around a fire and banging…

I saw a meme on Facebook this morning from Shelley. For some reason Facebook went all dorky and wouldn’t let me share the meme, so I made a new one using the same words! (Some days you just have to improvise!) So Facebook is today’s first recipient of my “Golden Shovel Award”. Some would say…

So there we were, my wife, the lady next door and I, all standing looking at our former fence! We’d been putting off replacing the thing for years, fixing palings and propping it up as it needed, but the storm that had just passed through the area proved to be more than it could handle!…