Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog)

WILL these posts starting with almost exactly the same sentence never cease?? Yesterday I found new trainers (sneakers if you prefer) by a ...

WILL THE WONDERS never cease?!? I am now proud owner of so much pickled baby corn (found in an outsized metal wheeliebin) I could barely ca...

WILL MY AMAZING FINDS never cease? Now it's free "salad tomatoes" from Morrisons supermarket. I found so many my fridge is gr...

I AM NOW PROUD OWNER of an (intact) pregnancy tester , several bottles of baby oil (including baby oil gel), a swathe of eye makeup types an...

... MY KITCHEN QUEST IS FAR FROM DONE! Only last week I was in utter bemusement in a butcher's while purchasing raw chicken legs about ...

IN MEMORIAM AND LAMENT... Roborovski hamsters are the smallest of all hamster species. These special pygmy hamsters come from the Mongolian...

FINALLY and at long long last I have signed the paperwork for where I live! This after more than six months of floating in a noman'slan...

SIR Alan Sugar is way scarier than his American counterpart, Donald Trump. Have a look at this. These are "interviews from hell" ...

I AM (TRYING TO) turn over a new leaf. In doing so I am reminded of a haiku I once read in a creative writing manual: This blank page glare...

THIS is what drugs have done to me ~ as told in another favourite poem by Goethe. MY PEACE IS GONE: Mein Ruh' ist hin, Mein Herz ist sc...

IT'S A BAKING HOT DAY already, though it's barely mid-morning. Blue sky, heat-haze, sleeping dogs; sun flashing off every dreamily p...

I REALIZE I'm not using the most attractive vocabulary , but I've found a fish-&-chip shop near me that does the best, slightly ...

BUMBLEBEES are some of nature's furriest little helpers. There are about 249 species worldwide. Here's Bombus terrestris , the large...

I JUST FOUND OUT THIS today glancing in an estate agent's window. Houses like the one I live in part of are apparently deceptively larg...

... (IN GERMAN!!) Wanderers Nachtlied II (Wanderer's Night Song II) by JW Goethe Germany's "national poet" who has been d...

FEAR. YES! FEAR AND SHEER TERROR!! It's the lifeblood of addiction. If we weren't so terrified by the sheer looming drop into the s...

THIS WAS YESTERDAY'S "ACCIDENTAL OMISSION" ... Austria's most famous "tart" ~ Sachertorte: It's very chocola...

Vienna ~ where I'm thinking of fleeing to ~ is world-famous for its Konditorei ; its quality cakes: Schokoladenkuchen (chocolate cake) K...