Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Actually I hate people, usually men, who insist on crushing your hand when they meet you. Spent the morning reading the research re hand grip strength and mortality. Note to everyone - not the same as strength of handshake. Sugar, diets and healthy living.

Friday, 16 March 2018. 7-spot Ladybirds - a Seasonal First. I could feel the warmth of the sun coming through the glass earlier this afternoon, and went outside to find three Ladybirds in the back garden and two more by the front door. I was thinking this was fairly early for them to be scuttling about until I saw that my first sighting two years ago had been on 3 March 2016. What a beautiful 7-spot! Queen of the Spring.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016. Well, the reason being my fb is more active! As of today, in our midst, it is the 3rd day of the Chinese New Year. It is the Year of the Monkey. Before the 15th day comes and signal the end of the celebrations, let me get some news in as it appears on my fb page. Taiping, my hometown, here we come! To titillate palates but we missed the famous cendol. So much to taste of this and that but my chi.

A novel by Anna Sayburn Lane. Skull at St Nicholas Church, Deptford. Unwinds along the pilgrim road from London to Canterbury. When walking tour guide and poet Helen Oddfellow meets historian Richard Watson, she thinks she may have found her soul mate. But she soon discovers that digging up secrets from the past can be deadly in present-day London. The seeds of the novel were sown over the course of a three-day .