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Saturday

Had friends over for lunch which was good. Showing them the new place for the first time. Both remarked, separately “it feels …

Cool Britannia – literally

Source: NASA In Britain we are experiencing our coldest, snowiest winter for a generation. And our island looks as if it has …

Phoenix rising

It was a modern miracle, the scene we thought we would never see. The Labour party rose, not just to applaud Peter …

Fooling around

“Edward VIII of England (Then prince of Wales) with his cousin Lord v Louis Mountbatten (assassinated by the IRA in late 1970s …

Pride not prejudice

Last month something surprising but rather heart-warming happened. An openly gay British solider – Trooper James Wharton -  appeared on the front …

Keep Britain Tidy

(via Tom Eckersley, Keep Britain Tidy on Flickr) Tom studied commercial art at Salford School of Art. During the 1930′s he was …