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This week, the week after Easter 2013, we Brits learn that the Greater Manchester police will now log as hate crimes attacks against Goths –… Read More »Legitimate Hate?

Most of UK has been rained on so much so long that the ground is waterlogged. Forgetting this, wife and I decided to take on… Read More »New Year’s Day

Winter, wet, cold, dark – at least it was on Boxing Day – 26 December 2012 if you don’t use British day names – though… Read More »Boxing Day / St Stephen’s Day

Marian and I just made a trip north to celebrate my oldest son’s ordination as priest in the Church of England and my 70th birthday.… Read More »Edinburgh

6.45 AM, Hillbarn Golf Course, West Sussex: The morning is bright, the sun having risen over the hill beyond. I stop near a green on… Read More »Morning Dew

Since Easter, more or less, it has rained most of the time apart from two weeks in May. To our surprise Marian and I had… Read More »Brecon

As the early morning coach drove north up the A23 from Brighton snow lay over the South Downs. Even Worthing had been dusted the night… Read More »Another Warm Stream

This morning’s walk of less than two miles from home to the OC UK office was wonderful. Despite the temperature being close to freezing point… Read More »Short and Good

A former colleague used to say, “Make it fun to get it done.” The obverse is when a necessary task becomes fun. So it was… Read More »New Toys

At work I used to read an Australian magazine, Kategoria, and was disappointed when it ceased being published. It was a thoughtful, thought provoking set of… Read More »Time Travel (2)