Category Archives: Lockdown Diary

I mentioned the other day that Turner said Margate had ‘the best skies in all of Europe’. Today, no words, just the sky last night at sunset. Three pictures taken a couple of minutes apart. Sorry they were through glass… … Continue reading →

Know much about moss and lichen? Me neither! According to the Canadian Museum of Nature (first up in Google) …a moss is a simple plant, and a lichen is a fungi-algae sandwich. Mosses are multicellular organisms with leaflets made of photosynthetic cells, just as with trees, … Continue reading →

You know the phenomenon when you come across a word you’ve never seen before and on the following few days you see it everywhere?  Not coincidence, but a form of selective perception I guess. Maybe it’s that or an increased … Continue reading →

When friends or family mention they miss visiting the sea it’s time to count my blessings. True, we moved here for cheap housing, but Maggie has always loved the sea.  That and the mild climate made Margate win out over … Continue reading →

It’s an odd thing, but most people that live in places with a big tourist footfall are either unaware of, or have never visited the sites and sights that tourists flock to. As a kid at school in Kent we … Continue reading →

I spent a night with toothache – the stub of a molar that should really have been removed ages ago… so rang the dentist to see if they would prescribe some antibiotics to settle it down. Turns out my dentist … Continue reading →

1986 was the beginning of the downfall… I’m pictured below on a boat somewhere between the ancient port of Bodrum in Turkey and the Greek island of Rhodes. Two things are happening; I’m beginning to stoop forward (while learning to … Continue reading →

Back in the USSR… Well maybe not but the early eighties was definitely my physical prime and the start of my world travels. So here is a very chilly April in the Soviet Union… back in the days when a … Continue reading →

In 1981 I spent three weeks in Corfu. I went with a group of friends and was later joined by a girlfriend and another group of friends. We rented a villa near what was then a one-horse seaside hamlet. It … Continue reading →

This morning alarmed a number of shepherds and has remained chilly all day. The hip is happier but I didn’t tempt providence by going out; instead heeding the ovine tender’s warnings. I’m still pining for my lost youth and thought … Continue reading →