Eclectic Magpie

Whilst clearing out the loft area of all that stuff, you know the type, the stuff we accumulate like a thumping great drag net we haul from ...

When I was a kid we used to heat the livingroom with either an electric or coal fire. The rest of the house was like a fridge and going to t...

Travelling along Ashes Lane this morning was a bottom-of-car-washing session with wall to wall water and little indication of its depth. It&...

 Sitting in a cafe enjoying a coffee and something to eat, I happened across the room to a family.  The mum was seated next to their young m...

Whilst listening to a podcast I was reminded about returning to the last place you remember having the item, which was tucked, stuffed or ge...

I remember going to the fridge one day and finding my mothers shoes. I wondered, as you would, and on asking her, all she retorted was, &quo...

  It's been such lovely weather in the south east; washing goes out and is dry within an hour, lawns are verdant and accept mowing on a ...

You know it's going to be a rough day when you wake up, look out the window and realise today's the day when the buses go on strike ...

Amazing what you come across when out and about. A while ago I was sitting having a coffee in a Coffee House in the Arcade, Maidstone.  Two ...

Have you experienced that moment when you start cleaning out the corners of your fridge only to discover a few, forlorn potatoes beginning t...

I've never fermented anything before but having been inspired by an article I saw on a gardening programme, I looked at my green tomatoe...