Category Archives: Walk with Joy

Pain Alleviated by Rice. What Joy.

Apologies for the fewer number of pieces posted in recent days but I have been in too much pain to write – a condition that should leave as quickly as it arrived with expert manipulation tomorrow. Please be patient dear readers, I … Continue reading

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Cockles and Mussels, Alive, Alive Oh

Holidaying at home is the theme – self enforced,  but we’re making a good fist of it.  Until Saturday just gone at least. We headed for the coast – not Folkestone for fresh day-boat fish, but for a change, Hastings – you … Continue reading

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Senses at Work in your Kitchen

My late father played the piano by ear.  He could hear a melody the once and then replicate it immediately – maybe not Chopin or Debussy, but most lesser composers’ work from jazz and pop to Tin Pan Alley.  As … Continue reading

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