The recent maiden speech from the new LibDem MP for TunbrIdge Wells - who served in Afghanistan - was good, if you get the chance to catch it. From what I have seen, there is some real talent in the … (View Post)

It certainly doesn’t sound like I am missing an Indian summer? Indeed I believe the island has been under severe weather warning for the latter part of last week. (View Post)

I admit that before I visited the town museum here yesterday, I didn't know that the Japanese had ever invaded Alaska. But they did, occupying three of the Alaskan islands, assumed to be for use… (View Post)

Oktoberfest has arrived in Colorado and after a morning hiking, I am lunching in the square of a mock Alpine village listening to a pretty terrible mock oompah band. This place has an interesting bac… (View Post)

Me and the dog went to see where San Pellegrino came from last year, and while the town itself is quite pleasant with the river tumbling through, the humongous factory just downstream, with a ginormo… (View Post)