Cycle Lanes
Fifteen or twenty years ago I was at a training meeting in Berlin. One evening a trivial event occurred. A few of us were walking from the meeting to our…
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8 April 2022
Resisting Evil
Resisting Evil If I write about anything else this week, it’ll be squashed by the elephant in the room. So, a few thoughts on the Ukraine tragedy. A little historical…
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6 March 2022
Preparing the Base
Preparing the Base Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most famous artists of all time, perhaps the most famous. He was also a great inventor, engineer and scientist, a…
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25 January 2022
Waiting For Sunrise?
Waiting For Sunrise? Where I live, sunrise today was 8:25 and sunset 15:42 — the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. For ancient people it was highly significant.…
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21 December 2021
Unknown Warrior
I wrote this a year ago after watching the service for the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, which moved me deeply. Last year was the 100th anniversary of the burial…
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13 November 2021
Up In Smoke?
Last night was bonfire night. Fires and fireworks in remembrance of Guy Fawkes and the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It doesn’t grab my attention anymore, though it’s impossible to…
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6 November 2021
Flights of Fancy and Reflection
Maybe you forgot cake and candles for the big birthday this October: the 80th anniversary of the Lancaster bomber. Its maiden test flight was 9th January 1941 and the first…
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29 October 2021
Which World?
Which World? I don’t live in the same world as you. Oh, it’s the same planet of course. The same physical laws: if it rains we get wet, when it’s…
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7 October 2021
Book Burning
Book Burning Did you know that for hundreds of years a Bible in the English language was illegal in England? Throughout the mediaeval period in Europe it was illegal to…
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18 September 2021
Hundred Acre Wood
Hundred Acre Wood A few weeks ago we actually had a holiday—yes, a real live holiday after eighteen months confined at home by the Covid jailor!We stayed with our friends…
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15 August 2021