On a beautiful sunny October day, I called to see Michelle Oldfield at her home in
Nottinghamshire. The reason for my visit was to hear all about a fundraising
project supporting two charities, Prostate Cancer UK and Breast Cancer Now,
that was masterminded by Michelle.
Age increases value. That’s why I rarely venture outdoors for fear of being held to ransom. But antiques are hard to
define. Artwork and artefacts increase in value as they age, but when mass-produced are rarely valuable unless they’re defective.
I agree with the sentiments expressed by
Bruce Springsteen in his 1992 song “57 Channels (and nothing on.)” In the US, there are around 2,000 TV channels. In the UK, about 480.
I’ve slept in some uncomfortable places. Once on a steamer out of Papua with no money for a cabin I hung a hammock
in the engine room.
As a teenager, life was mostly grey, boring and predictable until the sixties got swinging. Then everything changed.
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Weather events seem to have taken over the news recently. After forty days and forty nights of rain and subsequent flooding, plus wildfires in Europe, Australia and North America, it felt like we were being visited by the second coming of the
plagues of Egypt.
Grantham Museum can be regarded as a
hidden treasure, often unknown to most
residents of Grantham. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, however, as Grantham’s memorable historical figures and even lesser-known historical town itself, is one of the town’s main selling factors, with tourists even coming to visit it now and then primarily for its historical countenance.
Most warning signs are helpful, such as ‘Road Ahead Closed’ or ‘The person you are talking about is stood right behind you!’
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