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I only watch a few of the videos that the Quotulator likes to put up at his excellent blog, but I just watched this one and enjoyed it greatly: What I find so entertaining about this chunk of history...
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A walkabout five years ago
I am awaiting warmer weather, in the hope that I will then feel up to taking a photo-walkabout, somewhere in London town. Meanwhile here are some photos from a walkabout I did, walking (about) from the...
View ArticleHow the artificial meat story will play out
Andrew Lilico tweets: People seem to imagine there’ll be a “Yuck!” factor barrier to lab-grown meat. But a) in a sausage or burger are you even going to notice? And b) if you think “Yuck!” about...
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Castelnou
Castelnou is a small and impossibly picturesque hill town in the lower reaches of the Pyrenees, in the far south of France. GodDaughter2’s parents and I went by car, just over five years ago now, in...
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A strange discovery on the other side of the River from me
Just over a year ago, in May 2020, I went walkabout, across the River, after Lockdown had really started to kick in. At the time, I wrote here about how I crossed Lambeth Bridge, and then …: … wandered...
View ArticleThe League of Nations builds itself a custom-built headquarters in Geneva
I have been reading The Mighty Continent by John Terraine, which is a history of Europe from 1900 to the 1970s when it was published, being a spin-off book from a TV show. On page 145 of my 1974...
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