Wednesday November 11th 2026 "Our legs, eh! Like 'em or not, at least they're keeping us 'grounded' - no pun intended!!!"

Yes, Friends, our legs - they're wonderful things, although some people's legs are better than other people's legs, that's for sure!

But how nice to see Onion News "plopping" through our letterbox this morning, with its new "Leg News Colour Supplement", which will be free from now on, and published every Wednesday - see page 94 !!!!

And unlike some of their other recent ventures in supplements, all of which have 'died the death' after just one edition, which is sad (!),  I think this particular Colour Supplement really "has legs" - in more ways than one (no pun intended!!!), and if you don't believe me, just feast your eyes on these "doozies", which I've taken straight from the supplement's inaugural issue, would you believe, which is mad!!!!

It's almost a bit 'too much leg', isn't it, if that's possible!!! But these stories - and others, bring a cheeky smile to the lips of me and my wife Lois today, here in semi-rural Liphook, Hampshire - no question about that!!!

my wife Lois and me - a recent picture

However, you know what Lois and I are like! As do our neighbours, I'm afraid to say!!!!

"Give them an inch and they'll take a mile", as our country-bumpkin neighbours here in Liphook say about us, which is mad!

But there may be some truth in that particular local "old chestnut", because Lois and I are already thinking of writing to the people at Onion News to ask for a special "Foot News Supplement" to the "Leg News Supplement", which is a bit cheeky perhaps - what do you think? Why not tell us - postcards only, as always!!!!

Having said that, however, we're always a couple quick to "root for the underdog", and we feel that feet are very much the underdog of the leg world, and indeed, that the humble toe is very much the underdog of the foot world.

So why not a special "Toe News" supplement to the "Foot News Supplement"? 

I wonder....!

Again, your views welcome, if "your views" reach down as far as your toes, that is, which is always 'a bit of a stretch' perhaps !!!! And remember, this delightful 'pictorial' postcard (see below) is still available from all branches of WH Smiths that haven't been taken over by Modella Capital, owners of The Original Factory Shop, or branches that haven't been "rebranded" as a TG Jones - just saying!!!

But what a crazy world we live in !!!!

(left) a typical "un-rebranded" WH Smith's and (right) a vintage

"Liphook Agrees With Me" postcard - what madness!!!!

[Get on with it! - Ed]

10:00 And certainly, when it comes to toes, as Lois and I say, nothing says you're old like having to pay somebody to cut your toe nails for you (!), and today is our bi-monthly encounter with our "toes-woman", a.k.a. a lovely local woman Julie from Age Concern, who, as she trims our "talons" (!) and creams our feet, simultaneously "talks the hind leg of a donkey" - another item for the "Leg News" Supplement perhaps (!)

And after that, Lois and I have a lunch date at Liphook's flagship coffee-shop "The Moon And Cous", with our daughter Alison and her daughter Rosalind (18), who's just started a degree course in Politics International Relations at UCL London, with a minor in Danish, and a study year in Denmark to look forward to - so what's not to like! 

UCL London, with [inset] our 18-year-old granddaughter

Rosalind, who's just started a degree course there 

in Politics and International Relations (plus Danish!) Go Rosalind!!!

Rosalind has a massive reading list associated with her course, and this week, she's seizing the opportunity to take a break from the crazy London world to really concentrate on her reading work, for the College's official "reading week", but to do it here in the semi-calm of the Hampshire countryside - the young scamp!!!

For Lois another busy morning: (above) having our "talons" trimmed by local woman 

Julie from Age Concern Hampshire, and (below) a delightful lunch date with 

our daughter Alison and her daughter Rosalind, who's home for a so-called

"reading week", supposedly (!)  - the young scamp !!!!!

But for Lois and me the bottom line is "busy busy busy!!!" yet again, which is mad! No wonder our neighbours have dubbed us "possibly Liphook's busiest-looking retired couple" - the type of "moniker" that speaks for itself, we feel !!!!

What a crazy world we live in !!!!!

18:30 Evening falls, and at last Lois and I have a chance to "put our feet up" on the couch, and admire the trim of each other's toenails, thanks to our "toes woman" Julie, who has a special deal for couples, which is nice!

And Julie complemented Lois again this morning, saying that she's "got such lovely skin on her feet", and I always wait to see is Julie says the same to me, when she "does me", but so far nothing, which I feel is a bit unfair.

Tomorrow I'll include a photo of my toes here in this blog, so you can judge for yourselves!!!

[Please don't, Colin ! - Ed]

20:00 We get ready for bed by listening to a recent BBC Radio 4 edition of "Heresies", the series that challenges modern myths, presented, as always, by Victoria Coren-Mitchell, with a panel of pundits: artist Sir Grayson Perry, plus UK comedian Ben Elton and US comedienne Desiree Burch.

But it's presenter Victoria herself who particularly warms the cockles of our hearts tonight with her spirited attack on cultural snobbishness, and I quote!

"Open your minds, as we always say on 'Heresy'! 

"Popularity is not the opposite of greatness. Dolly Parton is as brilliant as Mozart! Morecambe and Wise are as good as Shakespeare!

"And at the end of the day I like to think I'm an intellectual, but when I'm in bed, I will happily settle down to a bit of Mission Impossible, Fast & Furious, Garden Rescue, Squid Game, and at least 4 or 5 other euphemisms for sex!"

Well said, that woman! 

Will this do?

[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!