Life's not all Beer and Skittles

We are now officially "Dog people" as we acquired a Golden Retriever puppy that we called Bailey in April this year. We had her at...

Plymouth, MA is a lovely place. It is home to the Plymouth Plantation (a mock-up of a pilgrim village), the Mayflower II (repl...

Over the weekend I went to Plymouth, MA with a friend for a Pub Crawl. I won’t go into details, suffice to say it has motivated me to gener...

I read in the BBC News today that a young woman holidaying in Cornwall was rescued by the same lifeboat crew three times i...

I read today that the US FDA has approved a pill known as the female Viagra pill. The drug is called  Flibanserin, and is produced by Sprout...

On June 19th I posted an entry declaring my intention to return to the gym. Well I'm pleased to report that I did join up, and have also...

We spent an hour or two wandering around the Centre Pompidou, Paris' modern art museum. The Musee National d'Art Moderne, France...

Paris was everything I imagined, but was made even worse by the 90+ degree temperatures. It was hot, crowded, noisy and worst of all, full o...

We took the high speed train from Amsterdam to Paris. It was relaxing looking out of the window at the passing scenery, although like most t...

Here we are connecting as a family at the rooftop restaurant "Floor 17" in our hotel in Amsterdam...

Today Tony and I returned to the Anne a Frank house to see if arrival before it actually opened would avoid the queues. How wrong we were! T...

The first day of our vacation went well. After learning how to use the Amsterdam tram system, we made our way to the old town to take in the...

Today we had to go into Newport to open bank accounts and other riveting activities. Newport is the town of my birth and quite frankly, is a...

Just arrived back in the UK after traveling from Boston last night, via Dublin. Here's a couple of things I heard on the way: In Dubli...

Just finished this painting of Trafalgar Square. Its almost like you were there!!!

High School prom....what in gods name is that all about? Emma got asked to the Senior prom this year by a guy who she didn't even k...

Spent a very enjoyable evening at the Armsby Abbey pub in Worcester last night ( http://armsbyabbey.com ). We went with 2 other couples,  ...

Is there anything worse than being woken up at 4AM by the small beep of a smoke detector indicating its battery is running low. Thats what...

In the past 2 years I've started painting, not my usual walls and wood trim, but watercolor painting. I took a few lessons and liked it....