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A few early Spring entries from my 2025 gardening journal, Hands In The Dirt — Notes From a Vegetable Garden. Now available on Amazon. Monda...

It’s Christmas, 2025 , but yesterday out shopping, I was reminded of the 1970s . No, it wasn’t the sound of Slade or Wizard singing about ...

  Collected from supermarkets and petrol stations , saved in books, then traded in for household goods. Another journey, back in time to the...

  So yes, did you know that for most UK households , central heating didn’t become the norm until the late 1970s? Many of us grew up in c...

I nipped into my local ASDA yesterday and was greeted, actually ambushed, by their Grinch-inspired Christmas extravaganza plastered across...

        Money was different when I was a boy. It really was different.  It actually changed when decimalisation was introduced in the UK on ...

1) You ate sugar sandwiches, because jam was not available. 2) You had an aunt who would cut your hair. 3) The local library was the interne...

I went to the five for a pound charity shop this morning, and picked up another haul. However, this post is part two of my catch-up, pre-cov...

So, I'm now playing catch up. Having been under the weather for a while, there are a number of posts to catch up on, including several b...

 A while back, someone posted the image below on Twitter X. It speaks for itself. We live in a world where you can buy a book, new, for a fe...

Last Friday, I got another five for a pound haul of books from the charity shop that keeps on giving. Let's see what I got this time. Al...

On Saturday, I made another visit to my favourite charity shop for buying books. They have a sale on of five books for a pound. In fact, tha...

I rarely buy magazines these days, the same with newspapers, the availability of free information on the internet means that I don't rea...

I made another visit to a local charity shop that regularly runs five books for a pound sale.  This is what I bought this time. 1) Pause by...

I'm fortunate in that there is a local park just across the road from where I live.  It is a country park where you are invited by the l...

About a month ago, I was out walking when the thought came to me that I really needed a new pair of walking boots.  My walking boots, more o...

I do like to look for bargains in charity shops.  I recently visited one that I had not been to for quite a while.  They had a sale on their...