There’s an example down here in SE London of how a bit more money can totally transform a place. This morning I’m in Beckenham Place park having dropped off my son who’s having a picnic here. A decad… (View Post)

We’ve just about found the right balance. We’re going to start letting it soon, and that’ll mean we can generally focus on going there out of season. At least until we’ve installed a swimming pool. I… (View Post)

About 10% were nuked, at the bottom of the slope. (View Post)

No, it’s a product of industrial pollution. Equating it to development is like equating smog to development. We’re better than that. Climate change is a problem primarily of industrial and domestic w… (View Post)

It was certainly hot. It had freakishly settled conditions for the whole summer. The UK was the most anomalously warm place in the northern Hemisphere that summer. Only 1995 has seen something simila… (View Post)