Category: Tim

One little job once we had done some basic unpacking was to see if all the bits of my backpacking tent, which has been packed away for years, were present and correct. The tent is pretty much bomb proof. Tested in gales at Wasdale Head and elsewhere. We have been to the little local park.…

I’ve been at the Times again. Two articles that caught my eye: This:- This country’s education system is a betrayal of this country’s children. It blunts their intelligence, narrows their perspectives and blasts their future prospects. How often does that need to be said? Of course it is not universally true; many children defy the…

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Then someone stole the scenery.

The pool is the whole point of the place after all. ED: And we have grey squrrels fighting on our roof. Well, I think they are fighting. 🙂

May 2009 bring you everything you deserve. 🙂

Some photos from our walk on Sunday. Bracing would describe it with an icy East wind off the sea. Big and Small loved running on the beach and scampering up and down the groynes. We finished off with hot chocolate when we got back to my brother’s house. Just wondering how old you have to…

We went to the seaside, so we had to go to the beach. Dusk and the sea was flat calm. Big and Small were thrilled, Jax and I were mainly cold. Merry Christmas!

The government has been accused of trampling on individual liberties by proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force” against householders who try to protect their valuables. Under the regulations, bailiffs for private firms would for the first time be given permission to restrain or pin down householders.…