Why the world does not revolve around baby boomers

Young people keep telling us that baby boomers are a selfish lot who always want their own way and think the world revolves around them. What rot! The world is not designed around baby boomers at all.
If it were, mobile phones would have 27 inch TV screens and typewriter keyboards so we could see [...]

Words of wisdom from Mrs Beeton

I love reading old household management books and my favourite is Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. I had to share this lovely recipe for restoring whiteness to scorched linen.
INGREDIENTS.–1/2 pint of vinegar, 2 oz. of fuller’s-earth, 1 oz.
of dried fowls’ dung, 1/2 oz. of soap, the juice of 2 large onions.
Boil all these ingredients [...]

Portrait of a Husband

It was said that Madolyn and Anthony were the perfect couple; although, to be fair, it was Madolyn who said it most often.
She never tired of describing their first meeting. They had been students, she studying art, and he economics. He had pursued her with champagne, roses and midnight strolls along the riverbank. She had [...]

Good News on Tara

Work on the motorway has been halted while a new archeological find is assessed (why does that not surprise me?)
The story is here
and there’s a pic of the new find here
Unfortunately this may only be a temporary reprieve and the fight to save Tara will go on.