This week I visited the Houses of Parliament. For those who have been there, you’ll know what I mean when I say that everything seems so small. The House of Commons – where we see the feis...

As we head into April we’ve said goodbye to yet more familiar names…Ronnie Corbett and Denise Robertson just two to add to an almost unbelievable list of people who have passed on so far this ...

In the early hours of Good Friday, at just past midnight, i was watching a “Play for the Day” on TV. There was a scene involving police cars which I thought rather strange as they seemed t...

HAPPY SOLSTICE! Well we made it Gang, British Summer Time is only a week away! After a cold, dank and grey winter there will be dry, sunny and increasingly warmer days ahead. And as of today’s S...

This week as ever we carry on trying to do our best on a daily basis to make sense of this planet and all of us on it. I had a big shock this week when I found out that my chiropractor had died at the...

It’s been another week of great chat, bargains, discussions, weather, jokes and news here and on our fabulous gang – the Mike Powell Listeners’ Group on Facebook. Thanks for everyone...

5 years to the day since we stopped gathering on a Sunday afternoon, it’s Valentines Day! What a great opportunity to think of the love that surrounds us every day. To help us do it a chillout t...

No sooner were we reminiscing about all those good souls who left us during January than we were rocked with the passing with Golden Tonsils himself, Sir Terence of the Wogan. What a shock and what an...

When you walk through the streets of London – or indeed any town – late at night you see so many people sleeping rough. For whatever reason they have ended up in a shop doorway, underneath...

And so we gallop into the last week of January with our gaze firmly fixed on the horizon where Spring beckons full of blossom, sunshine and new life. As we do we still relish in the season that is Win...