Feb
12
Southern softies
Category: Family, Lancashire |
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News reaches the temperate North of chaos in t’South caused by falling white stuff. Being based north of Thelwall, I am obliged to state that it’s only news because the weather has affected southerners. I’m also obliged to state that I’m jealous: the isosnow appears to have almost exactly followed the Lancashire border such that [...]
Feb
12
“Shadows? On my lungs?”
Category: Films, Music |
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“Oh God in heaven help me,” and other quotes from British films of yesteryear featured in popular music of the last twenty years over on my last.fm journal.
Feb
12
A growing lad
Category: Cycling, Presents |
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Last week, one of my students mentioned (in the target language, of course) that my jacket was now rather small. I felt obliged to reply that the problem was not with the jacket so much as the occupant who was getting rather big. Part of my problem is that I just do not cycle as [...]
Feb
12
Site and ferry
Category: Family |
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The ferry is booked with Norfolk Line and we’ve booked a campsite in southern Bavaria. The Käseseminare sound interesting or, at least, the end product does. Our current plan is to travel for a day and a bit from Dunkerque to Aitrang, probably spending a night somewhere around Luxemburg, to stay around Elbsee for a [...]

