17th Century
Postcard From Dorset, Part One
Mrs C. and I are lucky enough to have friends in Devon who have a spare bedroom which they are happy for us to occupy a couple of times a year. We’d visited them at [more…]
Photography
Hobbies
Postcard – A walk up Ingleborough from Storrs Common, Ingleton
12th August 2019 You can follow my walk on the map on Street Map Ingleton is on the A65 Skipton Kendal road about 10 miles west of Settle. It comes as quite a shock to [more…]
19th Century
Postcard from Smardale Gill
Retirement, as I’ve mentioned previously, takes some getting used to, especially when you’ve become accustomed to a kind of semi-formalised regimen that has developed over the best part of 50 years. Although not without things [more…]
Hobbies
Postcard from The West of Scotland
We’d been promising ourselves a trip to the West of Scotland for some time, once we’d decided broadly where we wanted to be we started to look for a suitable place to stay. The Mallaig [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 2
First Class Previously I regularly visited the continent travelling by train, ferry and hovercraft. Subsequently I went via the channel tunnel but before the high speed rail link to St Pancras had been completed. After [more…]
Arts
Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun, Part Two
没有人阅读评论 Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun (Nobody Reads the Comments) So what do Chinese people think about their country? Below are translations of three comments appended in Chinese (and hence not intended for foreigners) to a [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 1
In the prologue we recalled a fond age of travelling to the near continent via rail, ferry and hovercraft. This landscape changed with the opening of the Channel Tunnel. At the beginning of Eurotunnel [more…]
Arts
Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun, Part One
没有人阅读评论 Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun (Nobody Reads the Comments) “SINCE 1978 China has liberated more people from poverty than any other country in history, partly because China before 1978 consigned more people to poverty than anywhere [more…]
Arts
Along the Saxon Shore
When I lived in London in the early 2000s, I explored all the surrounding counties by bike. Of them, Essex was perhaps the most interesting. It suffers from more negative stereotyping than any other county [more…]