Loads of Dylan tales inside …. new links every week! Come inside and spend an hour by the fireside with the man of our centuries …
How Poprad charmed Prince Philip … a brief memory of the Royal who would have been 100 years old
Prince Philip died aged 99, nine weeks before his centenary. To mark his birthday the Queen was presented with a new rose named after the Duke of Edinburgh. The pink rose was bred by the Royal Horticultural Society and planted in the gardens at Windsor Castle last week. This week also marked the Queen’s official… Continue reading How Poprad charmed Prince Philip … a brief memory of the Royal who would have been 100 years old
BIG TRUFFLE IN LITTLE CROATIA
Here’s a really healthy, exotic and summery recipe from Jessica Steen … try it – it’s magical and better than mushrooms! By Jessica Steen Today was a day of self care and love or REST.I get super sad when I come home from travelling – it feels like pulling myself out of where I am… Continue reading BIG TRUFFLE IN LITTLE CROATIA
Slovakia’s homes sweet homes – but can Covid price hikes keep up as wages stay so low?
Many parts of Slovakia in the past two decades have benefited from a veritable wealth of success. And now the little big country has reached fourth place in the world ranking of house prices. A global house price investigation shows that – despite the devastating effect of Covid on jobs and businesses – the cost… Continue reading Slovakia’s homes sweet homes – but can Covid price hikes keep up as wages stay so low?
Rodney and Leigh talk tough about Sudan new coverage
Just about the best talk show on Roku
Bob’s poem for the isle that caught him crooning in the moonlight in ’69
See full poem/lyric inside BOB Dylan says that ‘everyday memories grow dimmer’… and somewhere in his great archive of scribblings, there is a short tome which, to all intents and purposes, seemed to be relegated to his long-forgotten back roads. It is a short poem dedicated to the 1969 Isle of Wight festival. A jotting… Continue reading Bob’s poem for the isle that caught him crooning in the moonlight in ’69
Why Slovakia is in the red – health bosses sent wrong Covid data to EU!
Slovakia health bosses have admitted that the country should be in the Covid orange tier on Europe’s travel map making holidays and business trips a lot easier. Instead we are stuck in the red! The Public Health Authority (ÚVZ) admits it has sent the wrong data to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.… Continue reading Why Slovakia is in the red – health bosses sent wrong Covid data to EU!
UPDATED: Mum’s ‘battle to save cancer victim daughter from doctors’
People have been re-reading this story from last year … the preservation society covered the story with a good friend of ours who was determined to help this mother and daughter who, no doubt, were living in hell. The story, like so much on the internet, remains to be read now and in the future.… Continue reading UPDATED: Mum’s ‘battle to save cancer victim daughter from doctors’
To dance with a stranger or to die in the plague … should we hasten slowly?
By Moston writer, Dorrie Jane Bridge Here I endeavour to represent Josephine Bloggs who is trapped on a planet of disease. I want to get out of my prison, and to have people come in and transform it to a home. I want to wander around the shops, handle the goods, eat in the carvery, sharing… Continue reading To dance with a stranger or to die in the plague … should we hasten slowly?
Wow! Another six counties are thinking of doing the same thing … Now the right of us ‘lepers’ to smoke in the UK is being stubbed out too!
There has been no smoke without ire in the UK for decades… smokers have been treated like lepers and forced to pay billions for the dubious pleasure of having a fag on a street corner. Last year the tax rate on a packet of cigs was £244.78 per 1,000 plus 16.5% of the retail price.… Continue reading Wow! Another six counties are thinking of doing the same thing … Now the right of us ‘lepers’ to smoke in the UK is being stubbed out too!