2018-09-21 20:24
It is a fine old farmhouse. Blue lias stone and a thatch roof give it a picture postcard look. A garden at the front is enclosed by a low wall and a neat wrought iron gate. Beyond the gate… Read More
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2018-09-20 08:57
“The guy who did the gaps, I’m having the stonemason carve that into my headstone.” Shaun Keaveny presented the seconds of silence at five past seven on his BBC Radio Six b… Read More
2018-09-19 19:44
The streets around the school bear the names of birds and berries and tress. The birds include the seabirds: lapwing, cormorant, sandpiper, gannet, fulmar, pelican,and puffin; along wit… Read More
2018-09-18 17:44
“21 seriously cool careers that need maths,” says the poster on the wall of one of the mathematics department classrooms. Being a teacher is not among the twenty-one.Once, I aske… Read More
2018-09-17 17:48
Growing up in the country, I used to find it hard to imagine that anyone could find any beauty in anything urban. With the possible exception of medieval buildings, and perhaps the odd piece… Read More
2018-09-16 19:23
It is said there are only six degrees of separation between any two people in the world. It sounds a dubious claim, the billion strong populations in India and in China are probably further… Read More
2018-09-15 13:56
Garrison Keillor used to sign off the News from Lake Wobegon in his weekly Prairie Home Companion programme with the words, “that’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the… Read More
2018-09-14 19:27
“You are the Messiah” Mark 8:29The five “W’s”, where, who, why, what and when, help thoughts about today’s Gospel reading.“Where” is stra… Read More
2018-09-13 21:20
It was a filling station in that old sense of the term. It was not a garage, for that would have suggested the possibility of mechanical repairs, instead it was three pumps with a small shac… Read More
2018-09-12 17:59
It was the autumn of 1978, forty years ago, that I bought Dire Straits’ first album. In the depths of rural Somerset, it was the days of three television channels and pop music a… Read More
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