Author Archives: Bill

The house at night. Quite impressive. I’m sorry, long day tired. Off to bed. Good night. Sleep tight.

A really good reason to visit Longleat at this time of year is to experience the festival of lights. Each year is a different theme this years being fairy tales. There must be a mile or more of lit up themes such as the one in the header picture including; Peter Pan, Hansel & Gretel,Continue reading “1163 – A night of lights”

Whilst we were waiting to board the boat for the lake cruise, watched the staff cleaning out an enclosure. A sign said that the enclosure was for Red Pandas, but it looked empty. The river cruise was entertaining, the host was very funny and the trip lasted about 20 – 30 minutes. After we disembarked,Continue reading “1162 – A delightful encounter”

As you can probably imagine, there have been periods of intense activity as a delicious meal was prepared by Elayne, I did help mainly as a spud and carrot peeler and dishwasher manager. It is though in the getting of all of the ingredients to the right state for consumption at the right time whereContinue reading “1161 – Merry Christmas”

Of course I enjoyed our drive along the longleat safari route. We had a lovely view of the lions, but the cheetahs had, quite reasonably, taken to shelter from the cold British Weather. Once we finished with the drive through safari, we parked up and walked in to the house area, not far only a coupleContinue reading “1160- Longleat – my best bits Part 1”

We went to Longleat today. There’s an event on, the festival of lights. Obviously, we did the safari before hand which was fascinating. As a lot of the animals were from Africa, it’s difficult if not impossible to Say what they feel about the cold British winter. It must feel alien to them. As weContinue reading “1159 – A visit to Longleat”

I started to a bit of a sob story about me being pathetic about something, not related to my current anxiety issues. I was three paragraphs in explaining the issue and realised the utter “patheticity” (I know that’s not a word. I’m sure there’s a word that describes how pathetic I am being over theContinue reading “1158 It’s more than Bah Humbug”

Tonight then, was in my estimation the first time in not far off five years when I didn’t have to worry at all about the Thursday Night Net. I have to confess that the freedom from the anxiety of the thought of doing tonight’s net or worrying about next week or any future activity was,Continue reading “1157 – The TNN & Anxiety”

I haven’t been walking anywhere near as much as I should be doing. After work today I suggested that we go to the stokes bay for an hour, Elayne could listen to her audio book, to kill a mockingbird and I would go for a walk. I must admit it was a lot windier thanContinue reading “1156 – Out for a walk”

Just want to apologise for the couple of very short posts. I’d reached a point where I really didn’t want to lose the day count, but was too tired to write anything. One of the things I have been wondering about is what is the optimum size of a community where people start finding thatContinue reading “1155 – Bad Posts”