The Not So Secret Diary of a Grumpess

Hmmm, where can I start? Well I decided that it was a good idea to tidy under the stairs. It's been a long time going to happen. Th...

It started way before winter but now it feels like I'm stepping into a lovely warm spring. This is only because - as advised by my famil...

40lbs Well, this is a bitter-sweet post I must say. I've been following the ADF lifestyle for a little over six months and still fee...

... And an accident waiting to happen. Grumpy came back from Heanor last night, and cars from Eastwood were having to go onto his side of th...

I was at Center Parcs last November (honeymoon) when I announced that I was going to have a Wii with Zumba for Christmas. This was received,...

Sorry about Asda's lollypop in the way I've just received a couple of comments by 'Anonymous' on an old post about that...

Update 15.2.13:  Just been told that McDonald's opened this morning at 6.00 ... It looks like it won't be long before McDonald...

I received a letter from AVBC the other day telling me that the extension to the time limit for the Heanor Haulage development had been pass...

Mostly by ALI and just a bit of me: It seems that this bad weather has sent all the workmen scurrying indoors, as it has gone very qu...

So far I haven't changed my meal times as mentioned in my last post because the weather got warmer and I haven't been as cold as I w...

Well, it was bound to happen. I've hit one or two snags with this lifestyle. Weight loss has dribbled down to half to one pound a week. ...

Just a little warning that from the 7th January next year , there will be roadworks in the area of the Asda roundabout for 3 weeks ... pres...

click on photo and it will enlarge I thought I'd better remember to do the opening hours for the Christmas holidays. It's amazin...

From a Comment by fellow grumpy ALI: Report from page 4 of the January 2012 Parish Magazine :- ITEM 2 - Adoption of Pottery Lane as a pu...

This lamppost evidently deserved a 'whole' tree Just a short one this time ... and this would have been done much sooner had Sk...