Black Patent Leather Crocodile Skin Shoes.

Tell us about your favourite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you. These shoes are beautiful, they are black patent leather crocodile skin shoes. (Crocodile pattern, no 🐊 crocodiles were harmed in making these shoes). They have taken me dancing, to parties and fine dining. They have been worn with dinner suits, lounge suits, …

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The Gift of Family.

Share one of the best gifts you've ever received. Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com I am stretching this prompt from ' Share the best gift,' to the 'share the best 9 gifts.' Firstly, there is my wonderful wife. How she puts up with me is something that amazes all our friends. She is loving …

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Budget? What budget?

Write about your approach to budgeting. Don't ask me about budgeting, it really is not my forte. Before I was married I was two things. Always broke. Mainly drunk. It wasn't until I met my wife that I was ever solvent or sober. I really don't know what she saw in me, I was generally …

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God Save the King.

Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you? King Charles lll I am British and very old. We have a different view of patriotism than many other countries. We have a royal Family, a King and a Queen Consort. At my time of life, we are fed up with politicians of all types …

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Go to Jail – do not pass go.

Have you ever unintentionally broken the law? I think we all do it sometime in our lives. Especially motorists. In fact drivers probably do so every time they are in their car or on their motorbike. We all creep over the speed limit. Drive too close, (an offence in the UK), fail to stop at …

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He’s Got to be Joking!

If there were a biography about you, what would the title be? On the extremely unlikely event of anyone wishing to waste their time writing about such a waste of human life, it would be called "He's Got to be Joking!" (Only joking, I'm lovely really). Please follow. © Richard J Kirk, writing as Joseph …

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Intermittent Fasting: Key Benefits for Health and Wellness.

Neither is me, but I am a much older version of the guy on the left! (Ai). The first in a short series on the benefits of Intermittent Fasting. I have lost over 10 kg in the last 90 days with very little effort and basically eating what I normally eat but at different times. …

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January Blog – Part 1.

Blogette Number 2. What a great start to the year, mainly rain, followed by more rain, then it rained. All the rain caused quite a lot of flooding. Further north they had snow, lots of snow, then flooding as it melted. So maybe not such a great beginning. To cheer us all up, we went …

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