10 or more years ago I wrote a series of 'Tuesday Tales' about my 'adventures' through a childhood and teens spent travellin...

Way back when, before the Playground really took off, I used to write little tales from my past on Tuesdays - and recipes on Fridays or Satu...

A guy (let's call him Fred) goes into his local pub and tells the landlord he has a sure fire way of drawing in more custom with a littl...

As I mentioned yesterday, I once had a boss (aka Noddy, secretly named by me 'cos all that was missing was the bell on his little blue ...

......is one Christmas carol that always reminds me of yet another one of my 'sillies' - but first here's the card I made: Be...

I related this one to Len yesterday, and he sort of looked at me whilst shaking his head and obviously thinking 'You know, she really IS...

Yesterday's card, and me wondering just what the Oriental/ Japanese wording on the stamp I used might be, reminded me of this tale I hea...

I was reminded of this incident when some wag suggested that I ought to have taken disposable paper knickers/panties etc. on holiday to leav...

I've written before about things that happened when I worked on Saturday afternoons in our local charity shop (aka thrift store). But, t...

Kath strikes again! She is one of the World's innocents, I've written about her here before when she went to the docs worried about ...

My parents were generally quite placid people, especially my Mum - it was Dad who had more of the sense of adventure whilst Mum was the home...

....and I'm debating whether to sack our gardener or not. He worries me when he dons his hat with 'Head Gardener' on - it's ...

I was reminded of today's Tuesday Tale the other afternoon, whilst pulling a load of rhubarb from the garden. We love rhubarb here, b...

I just bet most of us remember our first day at work - mine almost scarred me mentally for life: I was the youngest in the office, at a l...

OK, to set the scene. My Dad's father was quite an eccentric, as well as being very strict with his offspring. Even up until Grandad was...

As a child, I loved nothing better than being in the kitchen with my Mum cooking. She was a trained cook and always trying out different thi...

Many years ago, I was a junior computer programmer in a very old fashioned world. The men and women's pay scales were different (honestl...

Quick one today. Many years ago, whilst I was a very short term office junior at the electricity board in my local area, the TV programme ...

Shame I couldn't take some video of this tale, but it does tickle me and is worth relating. Anyone seen the film 'Batteries not in...

Watching the Thames Jubilee Pageant, I spotted my old office which was right on the banks of the river. Happy days! This tale came to mind -...