Category Archives: SMILES

Cloud Surfing – Resurrection Pass, Alaska

Posted on June 24, 2018 by john graham

GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life.    Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation. … Continue reading →

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Cloud surfing – The Cape of Good Hope

Posted on June 17, 2018 by john graham

GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life.    Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation. … Continue reading →

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Cloud Surfing in Kentucky

Posted on May 20, 2018 by john graham

GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life.    Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation. … Continue reading →

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Cloud surfing to the SUN !

Posted on May 6, 2018 by john graham

It’s another wet and windy day on Earth.  Not at all like May is supposed to be in Kilsby.   So I decided to go a bit closer to the sun and joined the NASA Parker Solar Probe. Goodness knows … Continue reading →

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“All the pages are my days”

Posted on April 22, 2018 by john graham

GrumbleSmiles was set up to provide innovative answers to tackling the problems of loneliness in later life.    Many older people are less able to get out and about, which can be the first steps towards a life of isolation. … Continue reading →

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Rainy Day Benefits

Posted on April 15, 2018 by john graham

All my recent posts about welfare benefits have dragged my down, not helped by the everyday rain.     It seems like I have chosen the driest subject to talk about in the wettest spring I can remember.    It … Continue reading →

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Spring Koan

Posted on April 3, 2018 by john graham

It’s spring, a time for growing, for going out in the garden and getting started on a new year of flowers, but nobody told the rainmaker !

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Panama Canal Trip

Posted on April 1, 2018 by john graham

I haven’t been out much this winter because of all the rain, so today I decided to travel to warmer climes.   I joined an American couple on a trip though the Panama Canal.    I have never been to … Continue reading →

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LLLP Derailment.

Posted on February 18, 2018 by john graham

I have been surfing around looking for welfare benefits solutions for what seems like an age.  So this weekend I am going to have a break and write about some thing different. Ever since the Last Laugh Looney Party has been … Continue reading →

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Banking Security

Posted on February 6, 2018 by john graham

My money is safe in the bank.    So safe I can’t get at it ! My bank card expires at the end of the month and normally a few weeks before that I am automatically sent a new one. … Continue reading →

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