From time to time, likely on a weekly basis, I will be featuring photos, stories, etc. that I hope you will enjoy – nothing too heavy but not necessarily fluff either.
Recent Posts
My older brother
Recently my older brother passed away. He had been in a long term care home for seven years and had all his faculties until the end. He had a sardonic sense of humour and I visited him regularly for all that time. We got to know each other a bit better but he always considered … Continue reading My older brother
The Magical World of Jules Verne
Second most translated author in the world – after Agatha Christie
The best selling author of all time
Who is the greatest selling author in the world? If you said William Shakespeare you wouldn’t be wrong as he is tied with Agatha Christie for that distinctive honour according to Google. This forty years after her death in 1976. Of course, William has been dead a few centuries longer than that (1616). Why do … Continue reading The best selling author of all time
I’d go the whole wild world
Recently one morning on Facebook they had one of those quizzes where they listed about 50 places and then asked how many you had been to and people were saying 11, 15 etc and I don’t pay much attention to these because they then tailor ads to you based on your answers and I feel … Continue reading I’d go the whole wild world
