This morning at about 0707 I heard the church bell tolling. It may have been the wind but it tolled 18 times. Hubs said he heard it too. I went to mass and asked about it this morning but the lady behind me, who is responsible for sounding the bell at the consecration, was ready…

We went to The Titanic Requiem, composed by Robin Gibb and his son RJ. while our youngest was in town, or more accurately, in village! We didn’t know what to expect but knew we had special passes for the reception beforehand. What to wear was the hot topic of conversation.  Always a dilemma  for the…

I am the historian of the family. I meticulously keep records, update photograph albums and save files onto thumb drives… In painful hindsight I didn’t do a very good job with the last. I have an external hard drive which I’ve named HG Wells.  It is connected to the Time Machine on my MacBook and…

I should have started the unveiling of my hair when I first arrived in June. There was no-one around who knew me, or paid attention to what I did with my hair.  A couple of years ago when I cut it from my waist to chin none of my family noticed, not even the eagle…

I told my youngest that we would wait until a sunny day to take photographs of all the pubs along the High Street.  She couldn’t understand why we had to wait for the sun, but I didn’t want to take pictures on a gloomy day. We finally went out late one afternoon taking advantage of…

Kensington Palace was closed for a £M12 restoration.  It re-opened after about 3 months on March 25th 2012. Hubs and I went there on a whim last Friday and we had to queue for over thirty minutes, maybe more, but I was happy people watching in line. We bought our tickets and while I’ll willingly…

Since arriving in England ten months ago I have not had to use my twice a day inhaler. For many years in Texas I’ve been a regular user of Advair.  It appears my teenage asthma came back to suck all the air out of me! For a few weeks now I’ve been feeling tired when…

Headphones are so tiny now, they are called earphones or buds.  They fit quite snugly into the ear not over the ear as the ones in my day did.  They are excellent at blocking all ambient noise.  I cannot stand the thought of isolation from the outside world. Young people wear them all the time,…

My eyes went to the montage on the bier in the North transet as soon as I entered the lily filled sanctuary. The stone had been rolled away!  The tomb was empty! The church was full! For the first time in seven weeks we had the glorious cross at the altar, the new paschal candle…

Easter Eve, sung by the Junior Choir was a service of Vigil and New Light.  There was no first mass of Easter Day at all. Sung most reverently by the young choir, which for the second week in a row surprised us pleasantly with their talent, we sat in a brightly lit but bare church and…