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We shall fight them on the beaches Is anyone else made slightly uncomfortable by the sight of two of the world’s biggest bullies sitting down together with big cheesy grins plastered over their mugs? It can’t just be me surely? There is an argument that runs like this: “Say what …

Time flies by when I’m the driver of a train And I ride on the footplate there and back again Under bridges over bridges to our destination   It all seems so easy when you are a child, playing with your wooden Thomas the Tank engine train layout. Train leaves …

This Spring, I have counted 136 different types of weather inside of 24 hours Mark Twain might very well have been talking about the UK this week when he said the above. One minute we’re basking in gorgeous sunshine, then overnight it  looks like it’s the End of Days. A …

Sitting in the spring sunshine we have all but forgotten the cold arctic blasts that swept the country in the first three months of the year.  They certainly had an impact on construction and I think most will agree that 2018 got off to a slow start.   The Office …

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; TV journalists have a duty to try and be fair and even-handed when investigating an issue. They also have a duty to …

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May How is it possible that we are in the middle of May? I vaguely remember the Easter weekend – something about a lot of chocolate – but otherwise I’m really not sure what happened to much of March and April. What …

“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, Warning: massive generalisation ahead! What is it about human beings that the moment we get into our cars, we turn into absolute numbskulls, unable to think about or empathise with anyone else …

Firstly I’d like to thank all the donors for their kind support during the last week: My friends from the R&PWCGS, Vince and Lisa Di Stazio, Ken and Jenny Pepperrell, John Swain, Cath Golding, Helen Newman of Lakes, Wendy Gillard of Timbmet, John Scrivens of Lakes, Barry Nicholls, Giles and …

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. Here’s a new game to try while you’re waiting for the train or for that stupidly big file to download or even for the kettle to boil: how many Housing Ministers from the last 20 years can …

For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost For want of the horse the rider was lost, For want of the rider the battle was lost For want of the battle the kingdom was lost And all for the want …