In Walking the Erewash I composed a limerick to steer readers past the pitfall of pronouncing the eponymous river as ‘earwash’. Pairing it with ‘very posh’ I thought to spare embarrassment, should ever you find yourself in that neck of … Read More »
Recognising a few drawbacks of my pull to the darker side of TV drama (Scandinoir has run its course but there’s always Netflix and my Sopranos box sets) I’m seeking out more wholesome fare. Two examples being The Detectorists, a … Read More »
A passenger train approaches Toton in 1957 and a coal train can be seen on another line From Nottinghamshire Live, August 4, 2018: The Government has confirmed that Toton Sidings, one of the largest rail depots in the UK, will … Read More »
A pair of Egyptian geese with only one gosling, my best pictures yet of those fallow deer – and the woods a blue shimmering haze. A few of the images at Wollaton Park on what is forecast to be the … Read More »
Here’s a full list of postal districts for the Coventry (CV) postal area: Granted, when I checked three other postal areas – Sheffield, Nottingham and Slough – they too showed gaps in the district numbering. Still, makes you wonder, innit? … Read More »
Don’t say ‘earwash’. I’ve penned this ode to not making a fool of yourself around these parts. Yesterday I drove to Toton Fields, bottom right on the map and a mile east of Long Eaton, to let the dogs out. … Read More »
Guardian, April 16 * . Drive through Long Eaton past Trentlock. Cross the Trent at Sawley. Left after the Marina, onto Warren Lane. Park at corner of Warren and Ratcliffe Lanes (GR 478 294). Follow paths and country lanes past … Read More »
Stands about the woodland ride … … wearing white for Eastertide … … though white is not the only colour … … nor flora the only life … … nor red the only deer … … nor deer the … Read More »
Is it just me? Or should we all be wary when a forty-five word tweet houses three instances of science, one of non-scientists, one rational, a hysteria, a hysterical, a don’t-know-anything and, for good measure, one old fashioned scream? Oh, and … Read More »
Bewildered? Mistrustful? You should be. Here’s Peter Koenig, writing yesterday for Information Clearing House: On March 26, in a peer-reviewed article in the highly reputed New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIAID (National Institute of … Read More »