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The sounds of the summer had a new sound this year,It was one of those june days when the sun was hot and the breeze was cool

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Terminator Seeds, neonicotinoid pesticides and the increasingly harsh winters due to the greenhouse effect are all contributors to the devastating decline of the humble bee

If I were to say to you Balwen, Castlemilk Moorit, Cotswold, Llanwenog, Dorset Down, North Ronaldsay, Grayface Dartmoor and the Wiltshire Horn I would be talking about different breeds of sheep.

In these times of pain and hurt, we need more understanding of our fellow man, nothing can be achieved by violence or war, nothing can be resolved by taking the lives of others, we all share this planet together, and we should all learn to live together, we are after all, all equal No...

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, "You are what you eat" in other words, "Eat healthy and Be healthy" This page illustrates that you don't have to spend a fortune to eat healthy.

Ten years ago I had a heart attack; fortunately I survived and learned a very valuable lesson.

So many times have I contemplated leaving the rat race behind and go to where my heart lays, with nature.

On a sunny but cold March morning after a short walk along the sea shore, I began to form the beginnings of a new transcription, In my mind was a lost love and the way she was and still is, this, coupled with the wild sea that ebbed and flowed to and from me, fashioned this presentati...

A look at how The Reverend William Cowherd changed the way how many people thought about the way they ate.

The second story from the NEW Adventures of Dolly and David, "The day it Snowed"

The Start of another set of adventures for Dolly and David Those two lovable Ducks.

The final chapter in "The Sheriff the Ring and Magnifying glass"

Chapter Two of "The Sheriff the Ring and Magnifying glass"

The second in the "Magic Book" Adventures following the adventures of Tom and Ruby

Last year I wrote about the events that made 2012 newsworthy, but there was an awful lot of doom and gloom, so this time I thought I would only report the strange unusual and downright funny news items of 2013

Why have so many of the world’s most ingenious and inspired innovations emanated from The British Isles? This little island measuring less than 600 miles from north to south gave birth to the Industrial Revolution and the World Wide Web.

So that was that! It was a leap year full of hopes and expectations; sadness’s and joys this is an assemblage of news items you might have missed and some we all wish just never happened at all, I wish we could all work to make 2013 a better year but nevertheless I wish all our read...

The phrase "Bucket list" comes from the 2007 American dramedy film directed by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, it was about Two terminally ill men who escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-...

As we come to the end of yet another year, I give you a poem of change

I wanted to write a story with an a surprise ending, nothing world shattering, just something that would make my reader give a little smile, sometimes when we wake, we take a little coffee to give us a lift, well here is my lift to you, just something to make your day start off with a...

Saint-Saëns wrote a A symphonic poem in 1874 called "Danse macabre" it seems to fit in so well for this time of the year.

I just wanted to write a tribute to "Our Mark" after his Heart attack

I have chosen my three favorite poems from the end of the first decade of this Millennium

My trip "Up North" to the land of the Haggis, Kilts Cabers and the World Porridge Making Championships

The news brings us more and more reports on abduction or kidnapping each day, from child abduction to Somali pirate kidnapping, but in my mind there is a way we can stop a great deal of this ever happening in the first place.... read on to find out what I think we should do.