Beyond The Blue Horizon

In February 2023, the Palm Lake company started work to develop the large block of land on the western side of Orion Drive, at the street ad...

(NOTE! To see an image full-size, right-click and choose "Open image in new tab".) Over the past few months we have seen some sign...

The most recent entry here was a year ago - October 2021, in fact - and a lot has happened over the past year so I thought it worthy of upda...

Good Lord....it has been ages since I posted anything on this blog. In fact, I was seriously considering removing it after I had a book prin...

I, and many, many others, are completely fed up with news-media TV journalists using sensation-laden lines when before the cameras and also ...

Nine months have elapsed since my last blog entry and during that time the new bridge over the Clarence River at Harwood was completed an...

In the past twenty-four hours we have lost two personalities who gave me so much enjoyment and entertainment in my younger years, and it mak...

I was looking through some old slides yesterday and came across the set shown below. Here is the story behind them:- Many, many years...

(All photos enlarge to full size when clicked) This past week has been one of those not quite ordinary run-of-the-mill weeks that we h...

Recently, when reading a novel by John Connolly, I was struck by how a particular sentence perfectly stated how I feel about my lifest...