Every year, some poor unfortunate in the newsroom got dropped with the round-up of the year. The good thing was that you were left alone to plod on with ploughing through a year’s worth of newspapers. Not so bad on a weekly, where you only had 52 editions, and usually just went for the front […]Read Post ›
Not being religious, nor having family, and not exactly a big turkey-eater as a vegetarian, our Christmas is hardly traditional. There’s no opening presents by the tree, twinkling with the tiny lights as there was when I was a kid and there’s no overeating (which I didn’t particularly do even then). And while childhood Christmases […]Read Post ›
Getting any Christmas cards is a surprise to me these days. I’ve never had a long list of people to send cards to, and my walls have never been covered with them. Even my mother received and sent more than I did which always surprised me as I thought they didn’t know many people. Perhaps […]Read Post ›
In my own house no less. Imprisoned. Locked in. I set off to do the weekend turnaround on the bus. Nice sleepy journey up. Arrived in Málaga just after 1pm. Plenty of time to catch the 1.30 bus to the village. But no! What was that long queue doing there for tickets? There must have […]Read Post ›
No! this is not yet another John Lennon tribute. Readers of Clouds will know that I have got fed up with reading blog posts about ‘John Lennon died 32 years ago,’ or whenever it was. But, ironically, my moan came back to bite me in the wherever. Indulging in a rare flurry of sociability, we […]Read Post ›
Gib’s history is vastly underused. For such a small place it oozes history of all types on every street. And yet, most tourists jump in a taxi or the cable car, look at the monkeys, buy cheap perfume, spirits and tobacco, and clear off. If I was running tourism, I’m not – the Right Hon […]Read Post ›
… for curtains The sheers, to be pretentious, or the nets to be accurate. Anyway, living in a terrace house rather close to our neighbours opposite we finally decided to join the net curtain twitcher brigade. I bought some extremely expensive French stuff, around £50 a drop (there were five drops) and promptly made them […]Read Post ›
