If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve been reading a lot of European history lately. For research. So it’s been a bit of a relief to switch to something lighter. Perhaps that’s why it took less than three days to work my way through The [...]

That’s a cheque I received in my mail this morning. I like the way they’ve been so specific with the payee.

I’m secretly rather enjoying my new desk. We’ve moved up from the third to the fifth floor, and I’m sitting by a window that gives me a panorama of the rooftops of London. I half expect Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews to pop out of a chimney with two soot-covered children and start singing [...]

I’m planning on travelling to Bulgaria next month, so I’ve been checking out the Foreign Office advice for travellers. Car thefts are apparently quite common, and could be more costly than you expect if you have driven into the country in your own, non-Bulgarian car:
If your vehicle is stolen while you are in Bulgaria, you [...]

It’s a conspiracy.
The government wants to introduce toll roads across the UK.
Drivers would be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis, with black boxes in their cars working out how far they drive on toll roads. (Source: BBC News)
Douglas Alexander, the Transport Secretary, outlined in a leaked letter that…
It would also help to pave the way for [...]

There’s an obsession with hurricanes on the shelves of WHSmith at the moment. Killer Hurricanes, screams the normally measured National Geographic. The BBC, never one to shirk from telling us an uneasy truth, says it’s all our fault on the cover of Focus. But don’t worry, because there’s money in them there winds, if you [...]

Whatever you think of Metro, or the company that puts it out, you have to admire this headline. It was probably put on the page with a snigger and very little hope it would ever make it to print. Yet it did, and it could only have been improved if they’d switched phew phew for [...]

You wouldn’t believe Eynsford was so close to London once you got there. I’d arranged to meet up with Neil and walk an eight-mile circuit from there to Shoreham and back, which easily lived up to the promises of spectacular views across unspoiled Kentish valleys.
Despite the fact the whole loop was contained within the space [...]

I do enjoy working from home. You don’t have to travel, so the working day really does begin at 10am, giving you plenty of time for a nice unhurried trip to the gym, a swim, a sit in the bubbles and a bit of flopping around in the steam room.
So why the day out of [...]