Monthly Archives: December 2009

The Edin­burgh Arms is quite friendly and cosy in an expans­ive sort of way, though it doesn’t really do half-pints.  We explained that we’d been to 18 pubs already, and were due to visit 18 more.  Out the back and … Con­tinue read­ing →

Train to Dar­ling­ton through extremely wet coun­tryside — the Ouse at York well over the Ings and the river­side foot­paths and every stream and small river north wards full to over­flow­ing. At times the train on its embank­ment was cross­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

Apart from the fact that the pat­ter to songs ratio is too heav­ily weighted onto the pat­ter, what a superb enter­tainer !  Humor­ous songs and deadly ser­i­ous ones — like the one about the shoot­ing of Jean Charles de Menezes … Con­tinue read­ing →