EAGLETON NOTES

Back in my previous incarnation in England and when I was in my early 20s I occasionally pulled ropes and rang church bells. In fact I nearl...

I woke this morning at 5am. I lay awake for a few minutes and was just about to turn over and go back to the Land of Nod when ideas suddenly...

It had been my intention this month to spend a lot more time in Blogland. Unfortunately my "other" life has been dominant. I was g...

When we bought our first house on Lewis we moved in in February 1976. I had already been here for 3 months. I, and a colleague, had been boa...

I have a bad memory: I always have had. It is a strange irony that people constantly tell me what a good memory I have. Like most people I ...

During a certain period of my childhood Saturday night was very habitual. Dad went to the Broadgreen Abbey Hotel to meet some of his frie...

and ends almost as quickly. When I left school I joined Ayrton Saunders Ltd, a Liverpool firm of Manufacturing Chemists with considerab...

When I was in my 20s I used to frequent a little country pub on the Wirral.  It was called The Wheatsheaf at Raby.  When CJ, Jo and I were ...

These are possibly not the most beautiful and certainly not the most fashionable of shoes.  But they are supremely comfortable.  So they sho...

Little irks me these days because I prize life too much. But I just wrote an entire posting of great wit and consequence which Blogger woul...

Scriptor Senex blogged on Scanning yesterday.    Simply Heather made a comment that the photos brought back to her "memories ....cov...