Life in the Urban Forest. Tuesday, 2 January 2018. IN WHICH BEAR CONSIDERS CHANGE. Briefly out of hibernation and looking around. It is the beginning of a new year and an ideal time to think about things new.

Saturday, 17 February 2018. It seems scarcely possible that it was 34 years ago we watched Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean win their gold medals at the Winter Olympics at Sarajevo with this routine. Monday, 15 January 2018. Get the full story right here. Friday, 5 January 2018.

Sunday, 8 March 2015. A brief intermezzo before we post the second part of the Sculptures in Touraine exhibition. Glorious! A slight cut above the usual stuff on offer. Snowdrops on their way out, double daffs in bud. Early daffs by the drive. On Friday Niall dusted off the two chairs and table we h.

My 50 Years in America A-Z 2013. Tuesday, February 20, 2018. An Old Friend Visiting, A Samson Update, Coyotes, And A Blogger Break. So far, we have plans to visit the Getty museum, shown above. Coyotes come by every day, not just o.

Sunday, 25 March 2018. Everything seems a bit brighter this morning. We are having lentil and pepper soup for lunch. Sunday, March 25, 2018.

This blog covers concerns you may have about emotional issues, health, sexuality, marriage, love relationships, parenting, retirement planning and more. Friday, March 23, 2018. You need to be dating and in love but not. You need to be availab.

Sometimes these ponderings will be from Caunes, and sometimes from Yorkshire. Monday, 17 July 2017. After a great Yorkshire week, and a few days exploring London on their own, cousin Linda, and her cousin Helen, arrived in Toulouse. We did all the things we always do with visitors to Caunes including the tour of the Abbey, which we discovered will not be hosting open air Vendredis Classiques this year. Linda had previously devoured all the Kate Mosse books so we visited La Cite to s.

Monday, 26 March 2018. And I hope the weather will be better then! Since I last posted we have had more snow, which was quite pretty, and we also stayed in a particularly beautiful part of Staffordshire - Consall Forge. Not far from Stoke on Trent. At Consall the woods were beautiful in a wintry way but there was very little sign of Spring. I was struck by the almost fluorescent green of the moss on the trees.

THE CRANKY OLD MAN Random thoughts and stuff from a cranky old man. I intend for this blog to be non-political. If I offer a political statement, rebuttals are permitted, however this blog is not for the unsolicited political opinions of others and as such those comments will be deleted and not published. This blog is now sugar FREE, fat FREE, gluten FREE, all ORGANIC and all NATURAL! Thursday, March 29, 2018. Men Think; Women Feel.

More pics to be added later when our broadband is functional. Such a lot has happened during the past twelve months. The fall out from the Brexit vote continues to make me sad and angry. Theresa May is hanging on and leading us to goodness knows where. In June we became grandparents for the first time.