According to the dictionaries, the word “uptick” means “a small increase or slight upward trend.” And it is an americanism. I could not find a definition in an online context, i.e. “uptick a comment”. That [more…]
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast; Not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity [more…]
May 2017 Taormina was the venue for the G7 attended by the various world leaders and as I watched I remembered my holiday there. It was 1980 and we booked a fortnight knowing nothing of [more…]
Uncannily, like weapons of mass destruction, both infirmity and senility can also frequently be only 45 minutes from deployment. Spurred on by the obviously frail condition of one or two of our regular contributors I [more…]
When I first spotted this book in the library, I wasn’t sure whether or not to pick it up – I already had an armful to take out, and wasn’t looking for another one. Like, [more…]
Graphic EJ David Dimbleby presents topical debate from from Yeovil. On the panel are the Conservatve’s Theresa Villiers MP, former secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Labour’s David Lammy MP, author of the Lammy Review [more…]
Everyday dental life in the Clinic was fairly normal. Normal that is if I had been used to working in a practice with limited equipment and materials, alongside three other dentists, one of whom had [more…]
Wind The accompanying image is taken from Dom Bedos’ ‘ l’art du Facteur d’ Orgues’ (1776), and shows, among other things, a single organ-blower, operating one of three ‘feeders’ – or possibly, pumping two of the [more…]
Dedicated to all the men & women of the British Armed Services, especially those killed in the line of duty since WW1 and the countless numbers injured and disabled defending our country and way of [more…]
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