I’ve just been listening to one of my favourite podcasts – Off Air with Jane & Fi – and they were talking about words they’d like to ban. Not the obvious terms that are blatantly offensive, racist, violent, misogynistic or scatological, but words that are overused or just plain annoying. Their list included hubby, pamper…
Month: July 2025
Tails of Trails
Well, we’ve done it! We have finally completed the Thames Path, all 185.2 miles of it. I have to admit that we didn’t do it in one go, day after day, unlike those hardy pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago. I’ve just calculated that we did it in 28 sections and it took nearly two…
Time on my hands
I am confined to quarters at the moment. Two men are building some steps outside and one man is painting the kitchen. Building steps is beyond me, but until a few years ago all decorating in our house was definitely done by amateurs – namely, us. Then one day a leaking shower led to a…