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Hello everyone...well we've finally done it. We've sold our house and bought a van to live in. Why...I hear you ask? Well the government didn't help when they made it unaffordable for us to stay in our

Hello everyone. Have you ever wondered, like me, just what those rappers are talking about? Well I thought I'd have a little dig whilst doing some chores the other day. Now does it make sense? If so can

Have you ever wondered just what those rappers are talking about? Personally I just can't keep up with the lyrics so I thought it a good idea to look at some lyrics and present them in a spoken fashion

It was an ordinary Sunday in the village of Kidlington, Oxfordshire. The first rays of the morning sun were reaching through the treetops into the kitchen where Janice Ballthrush was just about to finish

More sunscreening activity taking place over NW England. Best wishes and thanks for caring. STEEMONKEY🐒

It seems Santa will be wearing his breathing mask on his delivery round. No respite on Christmas Eve here in NW England. Early this morning the trails were long and plenty. They have continued throughout

I'd never been to Scholes before. There were three parts of town that my parents told me to stay away from, and of those three, Scholes was probably the worst. It was late 1984 and I was thirteen years

Too much activity to keep up with today. The planes have been leaving trails since first thing this morning and have been non stop since. Here's a few of today's culprits. Frankfurt CET (UTC +01:00) DEPARTURE

After mostly cloud for the past few weeks, gaps of blue appeared this morning. Something told me they wouldn't last long and sure enough, within hours, the sky was criss crossed with more plane trails

There's a road junction just around the corner from my house, which seems to have more than its fair share of accidents and incidents. Indeed, at this very junction last year, I saved the life of a tiny

History is all around us. Look what I found just around the corner. The location of the 1651 Battle of Wigan Lane which took place during the English Civil War between the Roundheads (Parliamentarians)

Back in the 1980's I worked in the kitchen of a restaurant that you'll be glad to hear doesn't exist anymore. I'd just left school and to earn a little money while I attended college I accepted a job washing

We all know meditation is good for us yet surprisingly few people indulge in the activity. It can be challenging at first but it really doesn't have to be. Some insist on adopting a certain posture that

It was the summer of 1985 and I was 13 years old. There were six of us, all the same age and all friends from school. The slag heaps are massive. Huge man made mounds of 'slag' or waste from the old coal

The skies have been clouded over for the past few weeks over this part of NW England but finally the blue broke through ths morning. This lasted until lunchtime when the sky once again began to cloud over

I hated religion for most of my life. The Catholic schools I attended didn't help matters with their aggressive, prescriptive methods of indoctrination. My parents and five older siblings never spoke of

Hello fellow Steemians. This morning I saw a story that inspired me to write a little song. This is my openmic debut. It's probably not one for the easily offended so if you feel you may melt just move

My wife tells me I'm a bit of a prude sometimes so I awaited her reaction to this news article with some anticipation. She wasn't exactly surprised, but this did make her feel uncomfortable. We both remember

Hello friends. Earlier today I took a stroll around my local town centre armed with my camera. I remember walking around this town centre as a small boy in the 1970's. Back then I would see something of

Hello friends. This morning Kelly and I took Syd for a nice walk through Haigh Country Park. We're lucky to live within walking distance of this wonderful place. I've been visiting this place for over