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After just over six years of blogging I have decided that the left hand tail has got too long. And I am too scared to try to connect the exi...

Have now finished the book, having acquired and started it on our summer holiday (see August 26th). It was an interesting read even though t...

A not very good snap of a singular beech tree at Claremont, from last week. Singular not because of its girth which was substantial but no...

One of the freebies picked up at the Olympia the other day was a nicely produced booklet for children called 'À la découverte de l'E...

Off to London today to see what was cooking at  http://www.languageshowconnect.co.uk/  at Olympia, a place I have not visited for a very lon...

Quite by chance, I find that two important features of my civil service life are no more. First, bullingdoning across Vauxhall Bridge I no...

After something of an interval, back with this river scene from Falcon, made in Hatfield in Hertfordshire. Photograph from Vic Guy - an ou...

Today was to have been the first visit to the St Luke's autumn season of lunch time concerts, but it was cancelled at such short notice ...