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Topics

1984 Britain
2012
A bit on the chilly side but there you go a happy new year to you all
A fat man ponders whether he should go to see his GP
A hamster chewed my trousers.
A pleasant surprise on the way home
A.E.Houseman
Addis Ababa
again
Alain Roland
All the curlews have gone
Allotment
alone
Alpha Male
Americano
and anything else I can think of
and rubbish televisions
and trees full of birds
Apologies to private eye
Arbor Low
Aren't our police force wonderful?
Astronomy
Autumn
autumn and winter
away
back again
back garden
Bad language
bad news about ebay
Badgers
Badgers leave the sett
badgers on the side of the road
badgers shine the best shoes
Baghdad
banks
Barista
Basking Shark
Bath Rugby
beach shelters and blasted owls
Bellingham
Ben Nevis
bike chains and idiots do not mix.
Bill Oddy
BIRD WATCHING
birds
birthdays
biting wind
Black throated diver
Blair Memoirs
blood test
bloody hamster
bloody raditators
Blue tits
bluebell wood
Books
Border Collies
borrowing
boycott
Brass Monkey weather in Buxton all the Badgers hibernating
Bread
Breakfast
Bunnahabhain
butterflies
Buxton
Buxton does not do digital
Buxton Dome
Buxton Festival
Buxton Literary Festival
Buzzards
Camasdarach
Camping
Camusdarach
Cancelled rugby
carbon monoxide build up and monitors
Cartoons.Guardian Newspaper
Cashpoints that don't do cash and spilt coffee.
cat flap
Cats
CCTV
chickens
childhood revisited
children
Christmas
cliches
Coal Tits
Coffee
confused instructions
Couple strolling arm in arm
Crazy taxi rides
cricket
Crunchy nut badgers
Cunningdale and bloody planners
Curlews
Curlews heard but not seen
Curlews naturally
curlews of course
Curlews return to the Goyt
cyberspace
Dad i've been shot. There are some little scumbags about
Dad's are weird
dads and daughters
daffodils
Daleks
diary
Dickinson how could you
did I really say that
DIY
DNA
Do barn owls listen to music when it rains?
DOG WALKING
Drains
Drama
dried cat food
Drivel and senseless nonsense
Dry Stone walls
ducklings on the pond
Ducks
dull grey days
dust
early evening
Early morning rising
earthquake in manchester
Easter Snow. lost keys
ecomonic cycles
Ecosystems
Education
Elderly Toyotas
Embarrasing cars
Empty cages
England
England go and lose to the Welsh.
Enoch Powell
Environment
Espresso
Ethiopia
Europe, Brexit, Disaster
Even I can't blame the post office for this one
eviserated rabbits
evolution
extreme cold
facebook
Facing the music
Facist local authority and very stupid people
family
Farmyards
Fascists
Fat man in a suit
fickle birds
fire risk
Fire risk; Peak National Park closed
Fish
flat packs and reading instructions
Fledglings
Fog
Fort William
Freedom
friday night
front doors
Furniture
Gabriela
Garden centres
Gardening
Gas boilers and hibernation
Gaza in Ardnamurchen
get your wallet out
Glaciers
Glasgow Pendolino
Global Warming
go on then a belated happy christmas
Gonder
Goyt
goyt valley
Great Crested Grebe
Great Tits
greenland ice cap
Grin Low Woods
Grinlow Woods
Grouse Butts
Grumbling Grouse
Half a mouse is worse than a whole mouse.
hamster potty
Hamster testicles
hamsters and rainwater
Happy and contented with my lot.
harmison
Harry Potter
headless voles
hedgehogs
Hen Harriers
Hens
Heron
Herons
hibernation
History
Holmfirth
Home alone
home working
Horse riding
hot and cold running milk
hot chocolate
Housework
Housing
humiliation
Hunting
I have a thing about notebooks
Iceland
Idleness
In which a weasel is unmasked and I have time to spare
In which Mr BW has one glass too many and starts ranting about stuff he knows nothing about
In which Mr BW learns how to defrost things properly with the microwave
Inconsistent
Inconvenience stores
irritable postman
Irritated by a gritter in the summer
irritating hamsters
Island of Rhum
ITV
Je Suis Charlie
Joe Strummer
John Mortimer
Kestrels
keys
language
laptops
Large Haldron Collider and the end of the world
Late Snow fall
Latte
Lawns
Left in charge and the badgers still leave the left overs outside
Les Bleu
lesser spotted woodpecker
Levellers
Lightwood Resevoir
Lilly
Lilly Rose
Lilly rose goes walk about
Lilly the Collie
Lilly the Collie. Silence
Little Chef
Local Government
locals
locking up
London
Long words cause confusion
Lost in Derbyshire
Lots of birds in the Goyt
Lots to look forward but enjoy the moment as well.
Macclesfield
Male Sparrow hawk guards nuts
Man flu
man flu and work on the house
Mark Kermode
Matt Stevens
memories
Minke Whale
miserable old git
Mistaken identity
Mists
Mobbed by Crows
Moleskin
Moonshine
Moonshine has another adventure
more sheep
Mornings
Morris Dancing
Morrisons
Mountain Roads
Moving on
Mr Badger opens a bottle of scotch
Mr Badger pops his head out and goes back inside his den.
Mr BW goes for a healing walk in the Goyt
Mr BW has to be cruel to be kind
Mr BW needs to retake his driving test
Mr BW ponders Mondays
Mr BW's wallet turns up in vert strange circumstances
Mrs BW goes off and the Weasel has a go at cooking
mud and stuff
Mud on the sheets
Music
My chain came off along way from home
My wallet goes disappearing to kick off the New Year
Nature
Nature red in tooth and claw
Neighbours
nest boxes
nesting
New Year's Day in the Goyt
Noise pollution
Northern Rock
Not a badger in sight
not french
not making any sense
Nurse
old and weary toyota shivers in the cold
old school
Oliver the First
Olympic logo
Olympus
Orwell
owls
P G Wodehouse
Panic buying
paranoia
paranoid badgers only this way please
Parking fascism is alive and well in the high peak
pathetic photos
Pennine Way
pheasant chicks
Philip Larkin
Phone boxes
phone calls
picnic
picnic on a warm sunday afternoon
piles of dog hair under the bed
Plumbing
poem
Politics
Pond
Poole's Cavern
prats
quick release mechanisms and garages
Radio 1
radio 4
Radio Five
rain
Rain and a wet Sunday.
rain and dogs
rambling
Raptors
Ravens
Re-wilding
Reading
recycling
recycling rubbish
red deer
Red grouse
Red Kite
religion
Rhum
riding gear
Robert Frost
rolling down the hill
Romanian Rescue Dogs
Rough Farm tracks
rugby
SAD
Salewicz
saturday morning stroll in the woods
science
Scotland
self catering
Self service checkouts
Selfish Dog Owners disturb curlews
Several small badgers get drunk
Sexed Semen
sharing
Sheep
Sheep back in the Goyt
Sheep dog
Shop signs
Short eared owls
silence
Sledging
sleepovers
small badger in the corner
small fierce dogs and unsatisfactory baguettes
Small Furry Creatures
snow
snowfall
Snowfall in the Goyt
Sod's Law
Solomon's Temple
something sinister has happened in the woods
Spear tackles
Spilt coffee and toilets that don't flush
Spring
Spring sunshine
Springwatch
Squabbling tits runs risks
squashed frogs
Squirrels
Stags in the Goyt
Steady kid
stopping off to look at the view
strolling on a Sunday morning.
Stupid Laws
Stupid people and toilets
Stupid pet names
stupid sheep
Sunday
Sunday Afternoon
Sundays
Sunset
Super Bike
T-rex
tea
teenagers
Teenagers texting for toast at unreasonable times of the night.
Tents
Terrorism
Thatcher
The Allotment
the beach
the bearded one
The birdwatchers lurk in the gloom at Arbor Low
The British Embassy
the church inn at chelmorton
the Clash
The Crescent
The Dale
the end of the day.
The goyt and her birds
The Goyt in the snowfall
The hyocrisy of the sporting world
The Munch falls of bhis horse and the Weasel gets round her dad
The on set of premature memory loss
The Police
the pope
the road not taken
The weasel goes out early
The weasel returns and all is well after a fashion
The weather in Buxton is often dull
The Wiz
The wonder that is a woman's handbag
The worlds fattest hamster
therapy
They Dove Holes Cycling
tired
Top Gear
Top Gear goes to Africa
Tracking reports
Tractors
Tradition
Twisted marketing and rather good PR
Uncategorized
unroll the badger
update
Useful words and their meanings and the fledglings wind up Mr BW
Virgin Trains
Waiting for the Weasel
waking the weasel
Walk in the woods
walking
Walking is boring and pointless
walking on christmas eve
Walks
washing up
watching a buzzard glide and soar
water
weak pathetic male hiding behind curtains
Weasel.
weather
Weather Forecasters
wedding dresses
weekend
Well I am jolly glad that's over until next year
Welsh pluck and guts
Wet weather
Whaley Bridge
Whats wrong with the trains
Where am I then?
where have all the curlews gone
Why?
wildmoorstone
Wilkinson kicks England into the final.
wind
Wind and rain
wind. patient dog
Winding up our antipodean friends
Winter
wireless
Wiz gets to Leeds Met
Wiz in Oz
Woodale
Woods
Woods on Sunday Morning
words and phrases
Words can be confusing at times
World Politics
worrying about which directions to take
writing space
you should see the size of the moles