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Priorities 26 May 2013 | 12:36 am
An off-duty soldier is hacked to death in a London street. In a sign of the urgency of the police response, the forces of law and order have been quick to spring into action: A number of people have...
Thundersprint 2013 22 Apr 2013 | 02:38 pm
I spent the weekend at the Thundersprint bike festival, and I am still here to tell the tale. Just. No accidents, just close to hypothermia by the time I got home. The ride up to Anglesey along the...
Pam Ayres needn't worry 20 Apr 2013 | 11:30 am
Courtesy of Boston Police Department: CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over The search is done The terror is over And justice has won. Suspect in custody. Good to see that even Boston's finest have poetry ...
Playtime 20 Apr 2013 | 10:36 am
In about an hour I am setting off to go to the Thundersprint, described by the Telegraph as "Brilliant bike gathering and sprint meeting" and by the organisers as "Europe's biggest and best motorcycli...
Inhabitants 19 Apr 2013 | 07:30 am
Imagine, if you will, an animal like a polar bear. Now reduce it to a height of three or four feet, and colour its pelt a dirty shade of pinky-beige. And let it move silently about the landscape at ...
Every man has his Pryce 11 Mar 2013 | 10:03 pm
So Huhne and Pryce are both going to prison. I'm pleased. For the avoidance of any doubt, this is not because he liked to drive fast. In the grand scheme of things, speeding is not such a big deal ...
Free Gift for Smokers 11 Mar 2013 | 10:00 am
Library picture, obviously Ha, that got your attention! I was clearing out a cupboard last week, and I came across a relic of my pipe-smoking days. It's a reasonable quantity of tobacco - Gold Bloc...
U+03C9: Greek Small Letter Omega 11 Mar 2013 | 07:00 am
ω OK, I give up on this one. Following recent heartache about a deluge of smelly spam to this blog, I recall that I have noticed one feature of a couple of the early spam posts: somewhere in the pos...
Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, Beans ... 11 Mar 2013 | 01:29 am
(Obligatory Monty Python reference.) The enabling of the Captcha word verification thing seems to have been 100% effective. In the last 48 hours I haven't had a single spam comment. On recent exper...
Mothers' Day 10 Mar 2013 | 02:56 pm
If you have got a Mum, give her a hug and say thanks. One day, you'll wish you could and won't be able to.
