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David Fitz Fitzgerald

Marriage? I forgot my anniversary!

HAPPY EVER AFTER?  Director Piers and wife-to-be Laura

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

WHEN I first started writing for The Herald, which was some time ago, the editor, Bill Martin, said: “Write about anything, but be careful, as it may come back at you and bite you on the bits.” Well, it has; last month I was googled.

I received a phone call...

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Go easy on the parsley, dear...

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

WELL, the strawberry harvest has started in the FitzGerald garden, and didn't we enjoy it. Next week we hope the tomato will be ready, if the...

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The greens cross code at  Avonwick

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

DID you know that the speed limit in Avonwick is 30 miles an hour! The enemy, the good lady wife, has been influenced by gardening programmes...

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Funeral car? Not our Punto, surely

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

CAN I start this week by saying hello to the bloke I met in the Ivybridge petrol station last Wednesday filling up a 'T' reg V12 Jaguar. It was...

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Astronauts can boldly go again

HIGH ORBIT:  Mileage charges made calling a plumber out impractical

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

WELL, even I sat down the Saturday before last and watched the final of Britain's Got Tolerant. I'm not sure of the criteria of entering the...

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Passport control was nearly lost

Monday, June 09, 2008

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that a family holiday had been booked, Portugal or Spain in June or July! Well, things are now moving apace....

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It's not Batman, it's Captain Eco

Monday, June 09, 2008

Last Monday was not a good day for me, but it was an excellent one for the environment. Last Monday, at some point, I slipped my pants over...

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A holiday hotel worth waiting for

Monday, June 09, 2008

The enemy, the good lady wife, has booked a holiday. We are going in June or July and it's Spain or Portugal. And she says that I don't listen...

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Take your own ketchup and plug

Monday, June 09, 2008

I loved the Wombles: slow, bumbling, rounded little fellows, snuffling around London with very good intent: slightly scruffy, slightly mad, fur...

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