Jim P-R's Blog

In some ways this blog is rather a sad one. Put simply and directly my eyesight is in poor state. So I am less able to control shapes and co...

Soups are a daily dish in our household and for them we use a pressure cooker (for economy and speed) and a handheld electric blender that h...

It was in the early 1950s, when drawing a coaster tide up in Barking creek, the captain seeing me at work, suggested that I sail with them a...

  Is not everyone who has lived for over a 100 years, so I am in a position to tell you what it is like. For one’s body you have to remember...

In my Autobiography in Words and Pictures I have written fairly extensively about my early life at our house in Silchester. And I may have n...

On reaching a 100 years old I thought that I might write a short summary of my lifespan, mostly of art, wine, travel, garden - the details o...

It is 2024 and I am about to write about my life in London’s dockland of the 1960s to 1970. Recalling the late 50s to early 60s encompassed ...