I am in Canterbury, a city famous for the cathederal, as an ancient place of pilgrimage, and famous for Chaucer whose writings shaped the English language.
As a visitor, what was the first impression? We parked at the park & ride and the automated machine spoke to me in a USA voice!
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That was the headline on page 16 of the 21/8/2010 edition of Uganda’s paper ‘Saturday Vision’. I thought it so funny I have reproduced it in full below.
The Biology teacher asked students during class:
Would you please name the organ of the human body, which under the appropriate conditions, expands to six times its normal [...]
I am writing this on the flight back from Uganda, it will posted when I next have internet access.
My regular readers will know that I have not posted for a while - been so busy. The York cycle festival organised by the Cycle Touring Club is something I usually visit but his year I completely [...]
Sainsbury’s have open their refurbished shop at Monk’s Cross in York. I met my wife and daughter there for a coffee.
Look what I got! Click on it to see it full size in all its horror.
Is this a ghost in my cup? A ghoul in my grounds? A demon in my mug? Should I have [...]
Read full post...I am nearing the end of a week long retreat in the Lake District staying at the “Upper Room” connected to the Hawkeshead Hill baptist church.
Being in the Lakes always means something extra to me as it was while living in Grasmere for a summer season that I became a Christian in 1975. I always [...]
I am having a break in the Lake District. So far I have had some great walks and some runs that just don’t get any better as far as I am concerned.
But today it was raining so I mooched about the shops of Keswick. Many others had decided to do the same.
I was in an [...]
Relaxing on a mini-break in a nice pub in Oxford about to have a meal, and my wife said to me, “Can you notice something different about me?”
Men, don’t you just hate it when women say that? There is no way to answer that correctly.
So I decided I could play that game too. I said, [...]
