The terrorist incidents today in Paris have alarmed and shocked us all. What touched a nerve for us is that it was only a few weeks ago ou...

It's been over 20 years since I've been to Manchester, and that also was for a trip to Coronation Street (or actually Granada S...

At midnight on Sunday we waved goodbye to our youngest, Rags, as she set off by coach on a 3 day school trip to Paris. The followin...

The 5p carrier bag charge started today. What a fuss! I've been to Wales many times, they've had it for years any it's such a...

My baby. My youngest is 14. Bloody hell! As a treat we took her and a friend to Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We did want to take her to Cor...

I've always wanted to do a sportive... A cyclosportive, or often simply sportive, is a short to long distance, organised, mass-par...

Coming home is always hard but this year it's been so much harder. Whilst away, at work they announced that they were placing my...

It's taken a while to post this. Not sure why, I've just been sitting on it a while...  It's been a couple of years s...

23:10 (1508.21) - I had planned for everything to be packed up and ready for tea time today. That went out of the window hours ago. Tha...

Preparing for a holiday can be stressful. Not for me, as long as I know where I'm going and I've got clean pants for every day t...