Scrap the toll on Swinford bridge
Although I haven’t been actively blogging here about the problems created by toll collection on the Swinford bridge for some time, they remain. …
Baby grey seal treat
Last year we went to see grey seals pupping on the beach at Donna Nook in Lincolnshire. It was so wonderful we went again on Saturday. The tedium of the four hour …
Darwin: Big idea exhibition
Today I had the enormous pleasure of visiting the Darwin – Big idea big exhibition at the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London.
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Eddie Izzard Stripped
Eddie Izzard is a very silly and very funny man. He’s also deceptively wise and free-thinking. No man could run through such a careful narrative of the whole history of humanity, from the beginning of time, dinosaurs, through the stone age, bible sto…
Making an issue of it
Why does everything these days have to be ‘an issue’? I hear news reporters talk about ‘terrorism issues’, I hear social commentators talk about ‘issues of poverty’, and health professionals talk about ‘mental health issues’.
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