White Stuff

Bonjour, c’est moi, er, again. It’s day four of our seven-day French sojourn and it’s a case of so far so bonne.  I must say, it...

Bonjour mes amis. Oui, nous sommes en la France. (I’ll complete the rest of this meandering drivel in pigeon English because it’s now 30...

Greetings from Barcelona, which l understand is an integral part of Spain/Catalonia (delete where applicable). We arrived mid-afternoon ...

It's now three days since we Whites returned from almost a week on the Causeway Coast of my native Northern Ireland. It's taken me...

The "before and after" school year photos aren't as as dramatic as the kids get older.  In fact, our two looked older (and ...

I was very sad to wake up this morning to learn that my old mate John Laird had passed away. John established Northern Ireland's lo...

This is where I've been working for much of the week. It's the bottom of our garden. This is the first time in the more tha...

Jamie officially turns 10 years old in a couple of hours' time (I'm delaying accepting the inevitable for as long as I can). T...

It was Sports Day at St Oswald's PS today and, despite claiming otherwise, Jamie was determined to defend his unbeaten record in the s...

The first of four camping trips planned for this year (yes two, plus another two) is done and, well, it wasn't too bad. OK, it was ...