Witterings are, well they’re witterings really. They’re not uncategorised posts but don’t really fit into anything else

Oh, look, a long lost blog…..

After all this time, having brushed away the cobwebs and caught up with a lot of software updates, I find that my old blog still works. A lot has changed, but apparently not the complete shite that spammers use to try to make you think that their crap is a real comment. Take this pile […]

The Cast List of White Christmas

Emma Dreaming Arthur White Chris Muss Jess Likedy Juan Swee Hugh Sterno Wendy Treetops-Glissen Ann Chilled-Wren Liz Anne “Two Ears” Laybelle Cindy Snow Emma Dreaming Arthur White Chris Musswit Avery Criss Miss Carr Dai Wright Mayor Dazeby Mary-Ann Bright Anna-May Hall-York-Rhys Mrs B White Totally NOT my work, all credit goes to Graham Garden, Bill […]

A Thanksgiving Wedding

So what did you do on the Saturday following Thanksgiving on Thursday and the madness of “Black Friday”? Did you take it easy and watch some TV, or did you venture out to do some shopping hoping that things would be a little quieter. Or did you go to a wedding? Rick and Jill’s wedding […]

American Customs

On Monday after returning from our weekend away in Kennebunkport I went to my first basketball game. It was a game between the Maine Redclaws and the Springfield Armor at the Augusta Civic Center. I had no real idea of what to expect. I’d seen some games on TV, including a couple over at Sue […]

What’s in a name?

There’s just something about the names of places in Maine: Perkin’s Cove, Nubble Rock, Cape Neddick, Cape Porpoise, Goat Island.. They sound like places out of a pirate story, but they’re all very real and we didn’t see a single pirate at all which was a great pity. We had a very enjoyable and relaxing […]

The Rain in Maine…

…was mainly on the Interstate. The weather was pretty lousy when we drove down to Heathrow on Friday night and we took it steady on the M4 but several lunatics in BMW’s steamed past us at speeds that must have been in excess of 90 mph. We stopped at Reading services for a coffee and […]