Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

I'm not a great one for funny videos, which I rarely find funny, but this from my son who works in the railway industry tickled me. #trains #railway #avanti

One of my usual jobs between Christmas and New year is ordering the allotment seeds for next year - usually from the DT Brown catalogue. I've not had any seed catalogues yet - is it just me? (England) #allotment #gardening

Kit (far right) has dozed off to 1998 (far left) #TOTP

Hi Tooters - I'm looking for your experiences of different ways of spending during European travel. I'm hoping to write a blog post on the advantages & disadvantages of - for example - cash, credit cards, currency cards, phone payments, travellers cheques, and anything else. Is cash still king? What do you take on your travels? Have you ever had a big problem with your choices? What would you recommend to others? Post suggested through Debby@hear-me.social Boosts welcome #travel #interrail #travelling #journey #cash #cardPayments

I was thinking the other day about when life (for us) was last 'normal' - you know without drama, worries, illness and such forth. The more I thought about it the more I realised that life is just a series of 'events' that mean that it is only normal - you know, just humming along - for very short intervals, sometimes minutes, occasionally days, and rarely, weeks at a time. Soap operas are the epitome of this - just one dramatic event after another with no breathing space. Real life has those short episodes of normality which would be very boring on the TV. Life seems to be like standing at the side of the road and seeing a yellow car pass by - a flash of normality receding into the distance. So, maybe we ought to relish the normal episodes while they last, and accept the drama, the worries and the fear knowing that they will pass - sometimes slowly, sometimes quicker. Blimey! I'm a bit philosophical this morning! #mindfullness #life #philosophy