This was a long-planned trip to go to our favourite country Greece with our Amercan friend Nancy. We felt that the Peloponnese, which is the southern part of the mainland, was the best area to visit in a week. The … Continue reading
An encounter with a leave-supporting protester outside Parliament this week led me, as an information scientist, to look again at the role of social media and the Internet in the Brexit debate. I asked this person, who I call X … Continue reading
This is the second of two blog posts on our visit to Cyprus in May-June 2019. The first post is here. Go here for a picture gallery. In Nicosia, which is now more usually called Lefkosia, we stayed 2 nights … Continue reading
This is the first of two blog posts on our visit to Cyprus in May-June 2019. The second post is here. Go here for a picture gallery. When our planned trip to Sri Lanka in May 2019 was postponed after … Continue reading
There comes a time when you absolutely feel that you have to do something. That happened for Martin and myself when we heard that on Saturday 23 March 2019 there would be a Put it to the People March for … Continue reading
My anger boiled over late yesterday when I read comments on the Daily Mail’s report on the article it had published at 5pm on 22 February by Amber Rudd, Greg Clark and David Gauke “If we don’t get a deal … Continue reading
We spent six weeks at our Florida house in autumn 2018. It was wonderfully warm, over 80F most days, and we ate almost every meal outside by the pool. It was even warm enough to sit out in the rain … Continue reading
This is the third of three posts on our visit to New York, Boston and Cape Cod in September 2018. Go here for a picture gallery. Plymouth and the early settlers Sunday was a good day to choose to drive … Continue reading
