Valarie Singleton, The Future and Victorians
Hello Hello, We’ll start this chunk of guff revisiting the substantial conker tree that lost its top section when the wind blew last October. Here she is candles and all, Not quite the shape she was,...
View ArticleApologies, Tardiness but Guff (of sorts)
News in Brief: Once again apologies everybody for tardiness in chucking up guff. I’ve had a lot on and also been gadding about a bit, plus there’s the impending nuptials for Child A on August the 5th...
View ArticleFurther Apologies, been a bit busy
Apologies everyone for continued tardiness with regard to chucking up guff. Child and her Beau's nuptials are careering towards us and time is precious so this kind of literal caper is going to have to...
View ArticleChild A's wedding
I was going to begin this chunk of guff with no little pep, vim vigor and a proclamation that we are Back! Back! Back! But a lot has happened in the past two months, So if we're all agreed I’ll proceed...
View ArticleAnd then we went to Ischia
Four days later, following an intensive clean up operation post wedding, Madam and myself bummed off to Ischia for a week, staying in an apartment in Sant Angelo where we did little else but eat,...
View ArticleThe Dever down to its' bare bones
Back home for a weed cut on the Dever that is down to it’s bare bones. This is my thirty first season on this stretch of the Dever and I have never known it so low. The signs were there back in March...
View ArticleSally Merison
Sally Merison, my employer and great friend for over thirty years has shuffled off and exited stage left. It was a swift demise, and at the end, very peaceful. Fading away peacefully on her bed looking...
View ArticleA Gentle Return to Guff and the Price of Pollock.
Right, I’ll have a go at guff. Still in a state of stasis to be honest, my prophetic powers are much diminished and the immediate future remains unclear. A position that many people have had to deal...
View ArticleWind, Conkers and a Triumph Dolomite
Hello, still here. Just been a bit busy that’s all, or should that read just been trying to keep myself a bit busy. A few things have happened, most of which I have already forgotten.Oh yes, the wind,...
View ArticleJohnny Cash in the Attic and Ally McCoist's Absolutely Bingo
Hello again, hello, Thank you Neil, It’s good to say hello. This corner of the internet seems to have been neglected of late so herewith is a brief resume of movements completed over the past few...
View ArticleInternational Kidney, Fallow Deer and Brer Beaver
A belated Happy New Year everyone, sorry it’s taken so long but to quote Jack Lennon: Strange Days indeed, most peculiar mama. First morning of the year found Madam, Moss and myself once again bumbling...
View ArticleScientific Discovery, MOTs and Surveys
Hello and Happy New Year, Oh, we’ve done that one.No matter there is much to discuss, not least my latest condition. On me everyone, I have now attained a vintage that triggers a summons for both a...
View ArticlePress on Regardless?
Hello, Hello, Apologies again for being away so long, not much has changed other than the demise of Dickie Davies, who we bumped into on many occasions, and a brief bought of covid 19 (Apparently it is...
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Still here, and as requests are being made for annual reports on the year just passed, I thought I should have a go at chucking up some guff by way of muscle memory and cranial stimulation. The river...
View ArticleBrain Fog, Risk Assessment and Brucie's GP
Crikes this one took a bit to get going, bit out of practise. Back in the day I could chuck this guff up in a matter of minutes (the clear evidence of rushed work is on here somewhere) follow it up...
View ArticleMine Shafts, Floods and The Harwood Arms
Happy New Year everybody, Covid for Christmas, which is not what we asked for and resulted in a funny forty eight hours of sleep, sweating and unusual dreams, before the immune system kicked in and...
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