Start out as you mean to go on?

Happy entry into 2026. We marked it with Indian food (loads) and ate it for several days after.  As ever the weather did whoopsie doodle: freezing on NYE and warm and grey on NY day. The past few days have… Continue Reading

Rubbish Present Reset 2025

Hey Hey Posse! It’s ALL OVER. For those that celebrated I hope it has been a fun and safe one. There is one thing that’s guaranteed. Over half your gifts will be unsatisfying. I hope everyone gave you receipts. We… Continue Reading

The Last of the Musings (2025)

Posse!  Happy nascent New Year! Wishing you every happiness, in comfort and contentment, in the year ahead.  Lordt knows we could use it!   Do you remember Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day”?  Well today we’ve had… Continue Reading

Five Things

Happy post Xmas etc. It was … fine. Which was really nice. Not fraught, good food (though I’ve realised that after eating the leftovers for lunch through the 28th that Xmas food is too rich for me for more than… Continue Reading

God Said Ha- Xmas edition.

First off let me say that I have never seen Julia Sweeney’s one woman show about both she and her brother being diagnosed with Cancer. It’s apparently a great show; I’d always assumed that the phrase was something like “at… Continue Reading

The Butterflies, the Sun

Carolyn and I went to Phoenix/Scottsdale for a few days recently. There were several goals – get out of this charming but in some ways very small city; be someplace warmer; eat good food; and walk around Old Town and… Continue Reading

Afternoon Tea

Welcome to winter. The solstice meant the last of the hanukkah candles, which are beautiful to look at when it’s so dark by 4 pm. In any case, we’re here. Winter. Last week we had flooding. Two days of torrential… Continue Reading