December, 2015 | Silly Old Sod

Happy New Year 2016

By Trev December 31, 2015 8 Comments 3 min read

This could be my longest blog to date, and possibly my most miserabelist if there is such a word. I’ve got to get one or two things off my chest

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Wrong Number From Outer Space

By Trev December 26, 2015 2 Comments 2 min read

Can you believe this, Tim Peake the UK astronaut on board the International Space Station made a phone call to the wrong number

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Merry Christmas

By Trev December 24, 2015 0 Comments 2 min read

Merry Christmas. Well, it’s been a year of ups and downs for me as it has for most people. One of the ‘ups’ is taking up blogging and the benefits I’ve found from doing it.

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Miss Universe What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Trev December 22, 2015 2 Comments 1 min read

Well, what a complete fiasco that was! The Miss Universe contest and what could possibly go wrong?

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Star Wars?

By Trev December 20, 2015 11 Comments 2 min read

Am I the only person in this entire universe that hasn’t had any interest in Star Wars? Every where I turn, there’s a poster advertising midnight showings of the film, kids with green flashy torch things that are supposedly called light sabres!

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Gathering

By Trev December 18, 2015 5 Comments 2 min read

In response to todays DailyPost prompt, Gathering, I always think of the House of Commons.

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Oops!

By Trev December 11, 2015 8 Comments 1 min read

This weeks Daily Post Photo Challenge is titled Oops! That moment when you get it all wrong with your photography, you know the one, when you make a complete pigs ear of it!

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The Conjuring

By Trev December 10, 2015 6 Comments 1 min read

This weeks Photo Rehab Cover Challenge is based on the horror movie ‘The Conjuring’. I’ve used a photograph of a building that is local to where I live.

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It Has All Ended Well After All

By Trev December 9, 2015 2 Comments 1 min read

I was in hospital waiting for an Angiogram with about 8 other guys, lined up horizontally in our beds,

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Egg Custard

By Trev December 8, 2015 6 Comments 1 min read

In response to today’s Daily Post Prompt, Pour Some Sugar On It, I have to say that my favourite choice of sweet thing has to be egg custard.

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Bench Series: December

By Trev December 8, 2015 4 Comments 1 min read

Bench Series : December is a photographic challenge over at Travel Words.

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Strike A Chord

By Trev December 6, 2015 9 Comments 2 min read

Strike a chord, I’m showing my Grandson the basics of playing guitar, although he’s struggling with such small fingers,

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Eye Spy

By Trev December 4, 2015 18 Comments 1 min read

The DailyPost Friday Photo Challenge is Eye Spy this week. I always have this fear of driving alone

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The Happiness Project

By Trev December 3, 2015 9 Comments 1 min read

This weeks Photo Rehab Cover Design is ‘The Happiness Project’ by Gretchen Rubin. I haven’t read the book personally, but it does look the sort of read I would enjoy.

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A Frustrated Singer

By Trev December 1, 2015 2 Comments 2 min read

In response to the Daily Post prompt, Ballerina Fireman Astronaut Movie Star, this is my story of being a frustrated singer. I always had desires of being a singer/songwriter.

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Benchman: My Alter Ego

You’re Never Alone With A Tree
Some trees have been here for hundreds of years. They never complain, they just tree. If only they could talk. The things they must have seen, the changes, hundreds of years through snow, rain and sunshine. When you sit in the company of a tree, you will never be alone. If you listen carefully, you […]
Another Time Another Bench
Benchman went to see Another Time which is one of the pieces by sculpture artist Anthony Gormley. There are a few of these statues situated at various locations across the U.K. This particular statue is on the beach at the seaside town of Margate in Kent. The complete set of works are titled ‘Another Place’ […]
A Room Full Of Books
Being in a room full of books is like being in a room with all of your friends. Each one is a conversation, full of memories or imaginations, telling stories to keep us enthralled. Other books are full of knowledge, how to bake a cake or make a cupboard. Some are colourful with pictures and […]

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