The great thing about Indians, rather than Chinese students, is that they are not under a geas to spy for the Chinese state. (View Post)

Grr - posted on the wrong thread.. (View Post)

Clitheroe is indeed a fine town - I'm sure Dixiedean was only joshing. My delight in leaving it in a northerly direction is because only one train a week does this. And I was on it! Anyway, happ… (View Post)

And now my train has just left Clitheroe station, heading north. Possibly only @Sunilpranasan will umderstand how excited I am by this. (View Post)

Off thread: as I telegraphed yesterday, with 48 hours free of parental duties, I'm off on an adventure in the North of England: I'm going to cycle across the Pennines (well, up to a point).… (View Post)