Cherrypicked stories

Non-employed or not, I like keeping a weekend as a weekend. There are two commandments to ensure this: ‘Thou shalt make sure there are nice sausages...

For the past few weeks, I have had a new morning routine; checking Chirpy the sparrow chick survived the night. He has such a loud and persistent...

And the world did nothing...

The only country that I have ever wanted to go to in the world, was Malta. As a surprise, my daughter Meghan, surprised me, a holiday for the both of...

Bus Pass is three years old today and is feeling rather excited. By coincidence, a new ‘Søstrene Grene’ shop is opening in Aberdeen, and Bus Pass, a...

In which Samantha frets about Josiah's dinner engagement, Josiah endures an awkward drive into the Cheshire countryside and things don't end quite as expected.

Escape Stupidity: a bit like escape velocity, it's the minimum point of idiocy reached to need to leave the planet... Image author's own: collage made from images at canva.com

It was a periwinkle day. Rolling green hills of the ‘sheep may safely graze’ variety. Teal shadows beneath the trees, under a Botticelli sky. Have...

This the last, for a while anyway. I've got to do some tidying up of Mr Martinez before I publish it on 1st August. In the meantime, see if you can guess what happens to our hero in this story, let me know, because your guess is as good as mine. Image created at canva.com