Recent content by oldtimer

Loved the interactive learning. I used to tell my pupils I learned as much from them as they did from me. Country kids have a lot of knowledge.

Looks as if it's carved in bass-relief. Must have cost at least a tenor.

And was it taken with a 'phone or a camera?

Do you have a friend with a terrier?

Deer have eaten all of Madame's tulips. Consequently a wire fence has now gone up inside the hedge abutting the copse where we know the deer hang out. Irritatingly I am just two meters short of fencing and am loath to buy a whole roll as it's too deer for this OAP as I lack the necessary bucks.

I've several times found new garments in charity shops with the manufacturer's size label wrong. It's worth taking a tape measure when shopping.

My family has Cornish roots: my wife's has Devon. We have survived 63 years of marriage by the simple expedient of never having cream teas.

I'm hungry. Thanks for taking the trouble to film and post. Maybe one year I'll get to a moot.

32 inch waist! Ah, those were the days.

Spring has sprung The grass has riz I wonder where The birdies is? The bird is on the wing. But that's absurd. The wing is on the bird.

Sometimes I'm glad we were born during WW2 and had childhoods full of rationing, shortages and simple living without telephones, televisions or computers. We need little help to imagine what is needed for an emergency. Our home always has always had ample supplies of food, fuel and water. And...

Much ado about nothing

The late Tony Soper put it well, I think. "Most birds are better at being birds than humans are at being human."

Oyster

Having checked out the prices of meat during our supermarket shop today, I hope your meat safe has an uncrackable lock.