I have not written about a jaunt for ages so this seems like the moment. The day begins quite early with an alarm going off at 5:15AM.An alarm clock is both a very simple and a very useful invent...
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I am back in Birmingham airport where the cost of car parking is positively criminal. I have written before of my troubled relationship with this airport here. Today I cruise through security and...
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We have been on a trip involving many trains….Train One: dull old train to London from Bicester Train Two: Eurostar to Brussels from St Pancras. This experience is interestingly the direct oppo...
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I am going to Dublin. To be more precise I am going to Co. Carlow to appear at their Garden Festival. This is a rather delightful fiesta that stretches over a couple of weeks and a scattering of ...
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I have just come back from the RHS Flower Show at Hampton Court. Often Hampton is hideously hot and we wander around skitting from shady tree to sheltered garden feature. This time it was pretty ...
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Gosh. Another blog post within a few weeks. It is like a dam has burst and there is a sudden onrush of old branches, small stones and general debris. I realise that this is a very antiquated plac...
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I have always said when asked, which is not very often, that if you are going to have a blog on your website then you should regularly update it. Otherwise people visit your website and, while fe...
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In which I go to Dublin during a heatwave.
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Tuesday: I am not enjoying driving on the freeway- there are about eight lanes, everyone drives on the wrong side of the road and the lorries are very, very large. Fortunately that doesn’t last...
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Those who have read this blog before will be fully aware that I love a jaunt. An unnecessary number of past blog entries have involved me wittering on about mooching through Moscow, charging arou...
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Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I am not a Catholic but quite enjoy a good mass. Ideally with a generous puff of incense and a bit of Gregorian chant. I also quite like the bit where the ...
Hullo. I have decided to venture into one of the dustier corridors of my life – this blog. Time was when I used to check on its progress every day, I would write regularly and comment on other ...
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We have been in an international state of fizziness now for the past six months (about) and when it all began I was full of good intentions. I would organise my photographs, write a book, read th...
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Part Three: Even though I know very little about indoor plants even I know that this is extraordinary. Basically, Amazon which, along with Starbucks, Microsoft and Boeing, is based in Seattle and...
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Seattle (Part Two) Monday You find me writing this while eating marionberry ice cream. I have no idea at all what a Marionberry looks like but it is a pretty good way to end a busy day. It began ...
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