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Peter Green on the cross-trainer ….. in The odd entries from life …….
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mat this afternoon, Peter Green’s wonderful guitar skills keeping me going on the cross-trainer and treadmill, and a little more in the background as I tackle the weights,...
One tribute and a original! in My things ……
We’ve just received the HFC programme for spring 2014, if your not sure it’s the ‘Hall for Cornwall’ in Truro, I’ve been there a few times, they have what my Par-in-law called a few turns, his w...
Doing it with American pie …… in The odd entries from life …….
Quiet morning and just the one dog, Lola’s bed is on the floor rather than on the settee where it is usually, in it’s place is a comfy looking Ziggy; Lola has found a softer bed. Our Daughter d...
P-i-n-k + F-l-o-y-d + a-f-t-e-r-n-o-o-n in My things ……
Our dogs have had their hour of agility, it was much warmer than last week, a biter sixty minutes holding the dogs in turn; this week was good. I didn’t take a camera, I can’t hold my Nikon DSLR ...
Heavens-above! in My things ……
The show of the decade is about to arrive, as long as you remember to look up before sun up, and live in the northern hemispheres; comet Ison rounds the sun – and very close! If the sun doesn’t c...
Crossed fingered – just in case! in The odd entries from life …….
A few images I took in early November, it might be just a few weeks ago, but it was before winter blew into Cornwall; well I suppose winter had to come some time. I have my car back now,...
There are winters and there are winters …… in The Opening Book.
More frost this morning, before we moved to Cornwall we were told they don’t get winters down here, but they do and one was so cold I happily paid £100 for a warm coat; of course with a week of b...
‘The Day of the Doctor’ in The Opening Book.
I’ve had a few starts about The Day of the Doctor, all I shall say is Steven Moffat has had writing towards this story since 2005. Strangely the various strings of the story are brought together ...
Don’t cough in the garden … in The Opening Book.
Winter is truly here, for two mornings now we have looked out over a white valley, a crisp frost carpets every thing; just where the morning light touches is clear. Yesterday was a beautiful sunn...
50 years on. in The Opening Book.
It is now fifty years since I was watching the tea-time news with Mum and Dad, not the actual news but what was then called a magazine programme – ‘Seen at Six’ It was in the last minutes of the ...
The Shropshire Lad from Portsmouth. in My things ……
Two nights ago my Sister rang, ‘hi Jamez – Mum’s all right’ Ho I think ‘Hi – what’s happened!’ – paws – ‘Mum’s had a fight with another lady ….!’ I’m not quite sure what really happened and neit...
‘O Dear’ in My things ……
OD is on a quick – quick – slow – quick – stop sequence today, I don’t understand it, it has been a really good site excepting the odd times it was attacked; this morning I got in even signed in ...
It is not on my programme ………… in The Opening Book.
Just back from Truro, despite my gym work the streets of Truro are still a leg killer, I think getting around was ok a little longer until I felt some complaints; and brief sit down was more bene...
Forty Nine Years and fifty one weeks …… in My things ……
Not quite Monday yet, and we have had a quiet weekend, Lola had her social-dog class on Saturday and both Lola and Ziggy had the agility classes. We’ve only the Mini is with the dealer – thank go...
There’s a hole in Cornwall. in The Opening Book.
A Friday trip and a new destination, Delabole is a village between Padstow and Bude, and for you Doc Martin fans just over six miles from Port Isaac. Delabole is party a linear village along th...
Exercising every thing I’ve got ….. in The Opening Book.
My second visit this week was quite interesting, when I arrived I had it all to my self, of course half of the equipment is to stressful me so I followed my programme, starting with a cross train...
Armistice Day Truro 2013. in The Opening Book.
I’ve …. just got … from ….. the gym, and I feel better than I can type, I got right through the program this time, I say ‘got right through’ but there were little changes, 10 to 15 mi...
A back and forth for agility …… in The Opening Book.
With one car this weekend Ziggy had to have a shortened class, so we had time enough to get Lola to her class on time, she has missed the last two classes because of rain; so she had her agility ...
A question of respect. in My things ……
Today is the Tenth day of the eleventh month of the 2013’th year, and the good and the great are gathered to remember those who died in the many wars of resent decades, I’ve all ways thought it s...
And we nearly got there! in The Opening Book.
We are a car down to day, I with my son almost got to the rubbish tip neat to Newquay yesterday, just half a mile from the tip the car just stopped, the engine was running but other wise there wa...
T’is the time of humbug …… in My things ……
I like Christmas, but after visiting a few shops recently I’m not quite as ready for the festive season as our shops are, mid December and I well feel ready to taste a mince pie; perhaps with a l...
A pleasant English morning! in The Opening Book.
Imagine the scene, I’ve had my morning cup of coffee, I’m sat at my computer with a plate with two pieces of warm toast covered with a slightly bitter marmalade, and at my feet lies my Westie; a ...
Any weight will do ……. in The Opening Book.
This morning I had my third visit to the gym, and it was my first session with a programme just for me, the other visits I was just trying various types of apparatus with a help with who was over...
A Monday in the backend of the year …… in The Opening Book.
At lunch time I hear the weather forecast, we are told this will be the best day of the week, on this best day I wasn’t feeling very brisk … We had a few things to do, I had to have my car at the...
Another Sunday much like the last one! in The Opening Book.
This Sunday was a replay of last Sunday, I took my Daughter and Ziggy to agility, being the younger of our two dogs he goes to the beginners class, the class this week did go for the usual hour, ...
