Year: 2025

Hi, Today is a day off and the Ever Lovely Mrs J joined me, in enjoying the sunshine (“Gah, it burns, it burns, Precious!” 😁) and breakfast out with the doggos. It was an early start as Child 2.0 had a school trip down to Mos Eisley: where you’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy…. Sorry, sorry. A slip of the cut & paste button! 😉 I did, of course, mean a visit to the capital including a tour of the Palace of Westminster. For overseas readers, that’s the Houses of Parliament. This meant an earlier than usual school run, this time to Nottingham Train Station via the electro-dad-mobile. The latter is rather good in city […]

Hi, As they say round these parts, “Eee, it’s a bit wharm“. There we go, that’s the box ticked for the obligatory British weather comment. 😉 Readers in climates that are hotter than late 20s may wish to roll their eyes now 😏 However, that offer is null & void if you’re sat in the pool and/or somewhere with aircon. Quiet Thursday Given the heat and move into summer, Chams’ membership takes a wee dip. It’s pretty much par for the course with the warmth, holiday season, and the lighter nights put people off. FWIW, Child 2.0 has decided to skip their outdoor activity due to the weather, so I dare say it’s not just a Chams thing. Given the […]

Hi, How’s things with you? Hopefully good, and if not, fingers crossed they improve soon as. Because my style of blog writing is absolutely seat of the pants – cynics & snarks might just say “nah, it’s just pants” 😉 – we’re going with what’s just landed in my addled ADD/ADHD brain: the good, the bad, and the wibble*. ( Yes, that is a Blackadder Goes Forth reference, and no, there will be no extra prizes for placing pencils in each nostril. Yes, I realise this a /S very modern reference 😉 Kids, you may need to ask your parents 😁 Gah, who am I kidding: like anyone under 30 is reading this! 👵). The Good The East Midlands no […]

Hi, I do not ‘do’ hot weather. I’m very much a person who prefers to warm up, rather than to have to cool down. So it will not be a surprise that I have not really enjoyed the heat wave that’s been hanging around the UK for the last week. However, it is just one of those things and you may as well be cross about it raining, than to grumble about the climate. I mean, it’s not like we weren’t warned Climate Change is happening right? 😏 So, this week, it’s been a number of earlier-than-usual starts and walking the hounds before the sun gets into its stride. Sure, that pinches the day a little – and not at […]