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...

Yesterday was my cycling club's "100 miler". It was a chance for me to really move my cycling to another level. I achie...

This week we moved workplace as government cuts forced our local building to close. We are all now working from a larger facility and i...

Over a year ago our eldest daughter came back into our lives. Things were good, she moved home and our family was whole again. Then ...

I've been going out almost every Sunday with my new cycling club. I've made new friends and I can feel the benefits over bein...

Shaving. A man's right of passage or a lifelong curse? I've been shaving since I was about 16. As I got older the frequenc...