California Wildfires: Why Fight Them?
California should not subsidize people to live in wooded areas by providing free fire protection. People who choose to live in such areas should bear the cost of the increased risk to their home, not...
View ArticleOur Side of the Story - Depression Era Story - Large Family - Rural America
Times have been hard in America more than once. This book gives insights into how a large family can make it through hard times. This Trilogy is a nonfiction narrative, Family Memoir presented as an...
View ArticleObama Administration Spending Funds to Expand High Speed Internet to Rural...
The Obama administration has begun to distribute funds to expand the reach of the Internet and digital age to more locations in the United States. This is a very interesting article that anyone...
View ArticleBosnia-Herzegovina
Once a powerful kingdom of Illyria and now, unfortunately, they are the second poorest country of former Yugoslavia. It is on the Balkan Peninsula. The Dinaric Alps form the western border to Croatia....
View ArticleGrumpy Old Woman. Political Correctness Gone Mad in Rural Lincolnshire
I know that political correctness is becoming the norm in our towns and cities across the UK but I thought that my sleepy little backwater of East Anglia had managed to distance itself from such...
View ArticleNutty Norfolk Naturalists
My partner Adam and I love nothing more than venturing out into our stunning and peaceful local countryside and spending our leisure time lurking in the hedgerows and along the seashore, river banks or...
View ArticleSelf Employment in Rural England Part One
Living in a small village out in the sticks can have advantages if you’re looking to work from home. I’ve been doing just that for the last 8 years and several of my fellow villagers are following suit!
View ArticleSelf Employment in Rural England Part Two
Following on from Part 1 of my article setting out how I came to be a self employed, work from home typist/freelance writer, I’m going to let you know how I got on once I’d bitten the bullet and gave...
View ArticleAre Traffic Fumes Linked to Lower Birth Weights?
It's been a long running dilemma and there have been myriad studies and extensive research but recent research which is the largest study thus far, seems to bear out the fact that pregnant women who...
View ArticleBouncing Babies and Bolshy Bosses!
I really wish, just for once, Adam and I managed to fit into a "neutral" zone! It seems we're constantly living in a series of heady heights or down in the doldrums and this last week has been no...
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