I’ve been puzzeling over what Helen experiences in the mountains? …and after much thinking of possible senarios, it’s the simplest that actually fits: The weather closes in, and Helen, pausing for a moment loses her way, stumbling about she finds…

I think it was some sort of disappointment thing that yesterday (being cold, grey and altogether wintery) wasn’t as warm, sunny and summery as Saturday that I spent a good deal of the day just faffing, which is annoying because…

Pepper has returned home after his two nights and a day jaunt around the local area. I came downstairs this morning to find him mewing outside the patio doors. Further training I think this weekend in the use of a…

Okay, so here we are the revised lineage for the family involved in Blood & Fire – just hope I’ve got all the sons and dóttir variables right…?

Just what kind of journal will my Estonian holiday give me I wonder? Roll on July please… I’ve now posted tales of my adventures in the new Travelogues section of my site. It’s just a reprinting of what has already…

A curious thought has occurred to me over the last few days partly brought about through writing in this journal and how you can make friends virtually with people with whom you would have little chance of meeting “face to…

Odin – a god, but by other names Boverk (Evil-doer), Gangleri (walk-weery), Harbard (grey-beard), Helblindi (hel blind), Svipal (changeable), Sidhotd (long-hood), Vak (wakeful), Ygg (terrible) – I like Gangleri as the name for the twenty-first century counterpart of my “Stranger/Emrys”…

Refreshed after a very good swim this evening, not only give it those muscles something to think about but it gave me time to think. It’s been on my mind for a few days now just what good images there…

I’m speaking of course of Governor Williamson – Clayton’s father – who is a nasty bit of work at the best of times. Now, with The Dance scene at an end he begins to suspect he might have made a…

Thanks to this years work bonus, I’ve upgraded my digital camera to a Fuji FinePix S304, and thanks to the superbly gorgeous weather this weekend I was able to try it out. What’s more I discovered that the polarising filter…

Still not sure about the cat flap, but he knows it’s there and it’s open for him! He spent a good deal of this weekend hiding out under my bed but I think that might have been due to the…

I don’t know why, but after installing Pepper’s new cat flap in the front door (which to date he has used only once – when being shown how it worked from outside he used it to escape back into the…

Well, I arrived home from work yesterday a little unsure of what I would find – to find the food untouched, the litter tray unused and Pepper still curled up under the desk (although he had moved out from under…

I had quite an exciting, swashbuckling adventure of a dream last night. It involved a proper kind of pirate ship, and (strangely) a huge ocean tanker of a vessel that resembled the docks of New York plowing through the waves,…

He had some mewing sessions but was mostly quiet all the way home, and then after I got him out of the cage and showed him the litter trail, he tried hiding down beside the fridge (but found the ironing…

…and productive too. I went swimming again this evening, and it was nice because it was quiet. I like it when it’s quiet because you can swim your lengths, get into a routine and are able to think. As it…

…from burnt out shell, to a plot of land in a desirable location, Blissford’s Biggest Erection continues to inspire… …even if now it does seem to have lost some of the early “open-plan” charm! Is this a cottage I see…