Category: News

8 January 2017

Happy New Year (again). Hope your celebrations were as enjoyable as ours and that your resolutions lasted longer than mine!

As most of you know, Penelope and I tend to celebrate New Year’s Eve when it gets to be midnight in Moscow or, at the very latest, Paris. We’re generally soundly snoring by the time midnight arrives in the UK. It’s been many, many years since we were out on the tiles on New Year’s Eve but this year we dragged ourselves out and partied like it was 1999!

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1 January 2017

Good morning and a Happy New Year to you all. We had an absolutely marvellous Christmas and are looking forward to a splendidly splendid 2017. I fear, though, that we may be disappointed – Trump will soon be in the White House for the next four (or eight) years and the UK will be blighted for generations to come following the Brexit idiocy – hmmm, not much to look forward to! Continue reading “1 January 2017”

18 December 2016

Good morning to you all. I hope it’s lovely, clear and sunny wherever you are and that your name has somehow found its way on to Santa’s Nice list.

I’ve just finished reading “The Last Days of Night” which I enjoyed. I’m not sure it quite deserves the 5* rating it currently has on Amazon, but it was a fun read. I picked it up largely because it sounded like the sort of book I would have enjoyed sharing with my father – a mixture of interesting history dressed up in fanciful fiction.

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20 November 2016

Oops! I forgot to “warn” you last week that the News will be largely (probably) non-existent for the next couple of weeks. Penelope and I are visiting the States to spend Thanksgiving with my mother and my two brothers and their respective better halves. We are comfortably ensconced in the luxurious Riverside Suite at the Switch Road B&B in Canaan from whence we shall venture out and about. 

Apparently, snow is expected today so we may be here some time! 

No edition next week either (probably) so we’ll see you in December.

Love to you all,

Greg

 

13 November 2016

Astonishing. Simply astonishing.

One of the better comments I heard was just before the election. In last week’s “Have I Got News for You”, (a satirical topical news quiz for those who don’t know) after a round on what was then (last Friday) the upcoming presidential election, the host said, “Yes. This is the upcoming US Presidential election. Next Tuesday Americans will go to the polls to elect the worst president in history. (Slight pause) Or someone even worse.” Continue reading “13 November 2016”

6 November 2016

We’ve had some excellent Autumnal weather this week – some lovely days with clear and bright blue skies and some foggy evenings. There was even a touch of ground frost on a couple of mornings. A few of the trees in the village have adopted a very festive appearance with leaves coloured more vibrantly than is often the case here. Unfortunately, I have no photos as they threw off most of their leaves in a matter of moments. Instead, I’ll share a photo from our friend Stephen White which those of you who are “friends” with him on Facebook will have already seen. Continue reading “6 November 2016”