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Sweaty, Betty

The temperature has soared since the end of last week. Today wasn’t really an exception. I have my usual 8.30am Monday meeting …

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 …

A touch of frost

We’re now in autumn and around the corner is the bleak midwinter that comes with living in northern Europe. The temperature 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 …

The remains of the day

As far as I’m concerned, Bank Holiday Monday earlier this week marked the end of summer. The day commenced both cloudy and …

Fooling around

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