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Guisin’ on Hallowe’en

“Needin’ ony guisers?” we’d ask the tenant of the house.  Three or four of us kids…none recognisable (or so we thought!) in our Hallowe’en dress-up.  Most would say “Aye, right…c’m in…” and we’d enter the house.  Then we’d stand there, a bit awkward, pushing and shoving each other to determine who would begin the party pieces [...]

Prisoners + Dogs

Probably one of the best news items I’ve seen in a long time (CBS Evening News).  They profiled a prison…perhaps more than one…which takes shelter dogs to prisons for training and rehabiliation by the inmates.  From what was shown, seems like the pups do as much rehabilitating as they, themselves, get.  Training over they then are ready [...]

Beautiful Day!

Isn’t it though?  Not a day at the beach, for sure…no gentle sea breeze but a hard wind that doesn’t just whiff away the cobwebs of one’s mind but whips them around in a knock-down-drag-out to fling them like mini frisbees, landing who knows where.  Rain at times…from just a spitter to a downpour.  And cold [...]

Rainy Afternoon at the DVR

Okay…so maybe it should read “movies” though not quite, for us.  I rarely go to movies…used to rent videos/DVD’s for the weekends.  All the comforts of home, even most of those found at the cinema.  One, costs less to see the movie;  fresh pot of coffee brewed, fridge full of water, soda, Gatorade, beer (Beer??  Oops, [...]

Didn’t I say….??

Yes…she’s here and not going anywhere, now…not even her lovely, home-y crate with toys, cozy bed and people fawning over her all day long (except no-one wanted her permanently).  That would be the black kitty mentioned in an earlier blog…only now, of course, she has a ‘real’ name.  Bellanotte…Bella for short and convenience when she [...]

Counting My Blessings

Ah…well, I have to confess that though I began well, I lost count.  All I can say is…they are and have been numerous.  Maybe we have to be ‘creeping up there’ to take stock of such things periodically.  Of late, I’ve done so as a birthday rolls around and yesterday was THE day.  By the time [...]

Celebrating Women

It quite tickled me this morning as I sat down at the computer, wrapped snugly in a plush robe with fingers warming round a steaming cup of coffee and preparing to write this blog.  Going through my emails and digital newspapers, strange ‘coincidence’ brought my eyes to an article in one of my dailies (The Scotsman).  [...]

Why No Black Cats?

Why is it people are so loathe to take in or adopt black cats?  Something to do with them being ‘unlucky’?  Which is odd because in the UK black cats…either in the home, crossing one’s path, whatever are considered the opposite.  Lucky.  I remember, before I came to this country and on the day I was [...]

Fight Club?

Is this how we should be renaming our Middle and High Schools?  In just the past ten days, alone, I’ve been following the goings-on in Delaware schools and, frankly, I’m sick of these situations with apparently no controls, no solutions.  This is not a new, sudden occurence or, obviously, a “one-off”.  The last year or so has…at least to [...]

The Election

Some things never change…not the promises, not the disgruntlement of so many voters or the old ’saws’ dragged out every election, be it a general election or local.  Seems like more and more people, this time around, are determined not to vote at all and I would be one of them.  Of course, no…not my [...]