Category: Just Saying

  This is a special thank you to all my visitors over the the year.   Without you I would be VERY lonely. Thank you for sticking with me, for all your comments and for all the shares on your blogs. Have a wonderful Christmas and a New Year that has peace and happiness for you and your families. Julia […]

Whenever it goes off, the fire alarm is a horrible sound to have ringing in your ears. We are on a little trip in Kent, staying in a hotel and we were woken abruptly earlier this morning by a horrendous sound. It made me think what action we should take in these situations. Believe it A fire alarm is statutory […]

As you will know Dear Reader we love to go out for coffee and today we found a new venue – Nonesuch Cup. Why Nonesuch Cup? The definition of the word going way back to the 1580s is a person or thing without equal; paragon.      It is also the name of a flower which I discovered is special […]

Struggling to carry all the farewell gifts, I packed the car and without a backward glance at the school,  I drove away. Having read the article High-flying women who say retirement’s torture (you did read it didn’t you because it was me in a national newspaper!) you will know about the best laid plans and all that. In the beginning, it felt […]

What is 100WCGU?   100WCGU stands for 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups. Someone asked me why the ‘grown ups’ bit as it seemed odd to add it to a blog post aimed at adults. I explained that it separated this challenge with 100 Word Challenge (find it HERE ) which is a writing challenge for young writers under 16 years […]

You will probably suspect that I’m going to have a bit of a rant with the title of this post but honestly I’m right aren’t I? You don’t see a poor dentist. I hate visiting the dentist I’m terrified of the dentist and hubby, whilst better than me does not look forward to treatment. So, when you find one who […]

You may remember my post ‘Seagulls or is it a return to the birds?’ that I shared recently. Well, a trip to Sidmouth at the week-end has added a little more to the tale. The hotel We are not regular visitors to this seaside resort in Devon but when we do stay over we always book into The Royal York and Faulkner […]