Life

Am working on a large list of links of pages I regularly visit. At the moment it is very incomplete, so have temporarily password protected it.

Really thoughtful article here from the BBCs Stephen Sackur on his return to the UK after 15 years of foreign jaunts. Until I was 18 years old, I had never met a black man or woman. Nor, knowingly at least, a Jew nor a Muslim. I was a farm boy born and brought up in … Keep reading

A friend mentioned today that she had visited The Bowes Museum in County Durham. Quickly googled it, and what an impressive building it is: The reason this cropped up? The Raphael painting The Madonna of the Pinks is currently on a national tour and is resident at the Bowes until June 26.

I have been away for a few days over the Easter weekend. Normal service will be resumed today, hopefully…

I’ve always wondered about this… UK professor concludes: cellphones don’t cause gas station fires Maybe MythBusters isn’t a solid enough scientific authority for Connecticut state senator Andreas Stillman, who wants to ban the use of cellphones when you’re filling up your car, but a professor from University of Kent in the UK has decided to … Keep reading