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Shed of the year 6 Jul 2013 | 03:48 pm
I see that a hand-built cabin in the Cambrian Mountains has won Cuprinol's Shed of the Year. A prize of £1000 attracted hundreds of entrants - and about a million quid's worth of free publicity for Cu...
Tied hands - and the value of time 4 Jul 2013 | 01:27 am
It's been eight weeks since I wrote on this blog; the longest break for years. Not that I've been idle; rather my hands have been tied - quite literally at times. And I've been thinking too, about th...
Cycling by numbers 6 May 2013 | 01:48 am
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false In March this year I went cycling in Majorca. I rode 510 miles in eight days - an average of 63.75 miles or 102.5 kilometres. One ride included 6525...
Encounters 6 - badger 20 Mar 2013 | 06:18 pm
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false An unlikely place to see a badger Sometimes, if we see the most ordinary of things in an unexpected context, it can jolt our senses. I was once tran...
The trouble with pensions - part 2 (public sector) 17 Feb 2013 | 02:38 am
No review of UK pensions can be complete without a discussion of the divide between the private and public sector. Unfortunately that word 'discussion' is pretty rare in practice - instead we have, on...
The trouble with pensions - part 1 9 Feb 2013 | 12:59 am
A couple of posts previous to this, Mark in Mayenne commented that he could weep for what has happened to education in Britain. I'm not so sure, but I could certainly weep for what's happened to our p...
A new take on Valentine's day 7 Feb 2013 | 05:53 pm
The white tower, top right - title of one of the essays from my book Forgive the self promotion, but for a new take on Valentines Day I will be reading from my book at Pages Bookshop, Hackney. I'd b...
The trouble with speeding - and a perversion of justice 7 Feb 2013 | 01:03 am
Image stolen from the web! The recent publicity surrounding the guilty plea of Chris Huhne, and the tragic consequences for both him and his family have been playing on my mind. It's not that I care ...
The trouble with posh boys 1 Feb 2013 | 01:39 pm
Preamble. It's been a while since I've written about politics or ruffled a few feathers at the bike shed. Although I never quite reasoned it out, I think I've been concerned that readers of my book m...
Lockdown 21 Jan 2013 | 01:13 am
There are times when resistance is pointless; when whinging and railing is as far as you'll get. Like Canute, great warrior though he was, you learn it's folly to fight the tide. Any parent knows the...
