From the category archives:
Swallow fledgling newly out of its nest this morning when this photo was taken.
Total distance travelled = 6ft. Truly awesome that this young ‘life’ which can be held in the palm of my hand can, in just a few week’s time, cross the English Channel, fly over south western Europe, across the Sahara, down through [...]
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Barbara Walter’s of Televisions 20/20, did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan – several years before the present conflict. During the course of her story she noted that women still walked five paces behind their spouses.
On a recent return trip to Kabul she noted women still walking behind their husbands, despite the overthrow [...]
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Time was, when the local telephone directory came in two halves, one for residential numbers and the other for commercial, each a couple of inches thick. Has it now got so thin as to be not worth having? Reckon so.
It’s great size and weight was often referred to in comic one-liners. Not any more. The [...]
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How do you know your vehicle is over-revving? – If you’ve never heard an over-revving engine.
How do you know your car has stalled? – If you’ve never seen or heard a car stall?
We take so much for granted and most of the time we don’t even know it. Take my wife and learning to drive [...]
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