Sunday, May 31, 2015

The decline of fitness

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Back to the gym this morning for the first time in twelve days. Weak as a kitten: my mother could have done better. A television reviewer ...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Late May in Normandy

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We were in Normandy, France last week on a short break, the latter half with Clare's sister and family in Nobécourt, north of Paris. ...

This and that

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Back from France and into a round of visits to a relative in Southmead Hospital. Meanwhile we struggle with the mountain of laundry and gett...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Classic pix: cat blanket (Dec 28th 2002)

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Clare finds a whole new meaning to the term 'cat blanket' And now, children, it's time for sleep ... We abandoned thes...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Land drones

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The Iraqi army has collapsed again in the face of a few hundred ISIS insurgents: what you get when you seek to impose a western-style milita...

iPad 2

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I bought my mother's iPad 2 from her on the off chance I could make something of it. Stranded at IOS 4.3.1 it had long since given up ac...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Primark

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Down to Primark in Broadmead, Bristol yesterday to buy jeans. A year after it had become necessary, I finally downsized my trousers from 36...
Monday, May 18, 2015

My mother's fox

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For reasons not unconnected with 'noticing' we suspected a rat in my mother's back garden. The BadgerCam was duly deployed as a...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Suburban Fox Preview

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A teaser for tomorrow's post

Fixing Labour

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Mark Mardell wrote an intelligent piece on the BBC website, pointing out that the conventional wisdom as to why Labour lost the election ha...