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No new words have made an appearance on this blog for many months.  Today though is one of those times when they must. What can I say...

This blog began in the watery wake of a British rowing eight victory in Athens, during the games of the 28th Olympiad in Athens. It was a hu...

Today is Diamond Jubilee Day, a Public Holiday in the United Kingdom and the culmination of the four-day "Central Weekend" of cele...

The big guy in red is now safely back home. I would say at the frozen North Pole, but it seems like much of the northern hemisphere is froze...

'Phased Alternating Line'- the British TV standard. But even TV doesn't stay the same for long these days. John Logie Baird ma...

It's supposedly a familiar cry on the terraces at football grounds up and down the land, as some player who's clearly not in the pri...

"Today is D-Day." The 6th June 2009 marks the 65th anniversary of the daring invasion of Normandy by thousands of Allied troops. ...

It's not been a good week for the law, or at least the law enforcers. Today, Britain's top anti-terrorist branch policeman, Bob Qui...

Today, 27th January, is Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK, marking the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Union on this...

Carol Vorderman, Queen of the Consonants, placed her final vowels on the Countdown board a few weeks ago. For TV quizzes, it was the end of...

Four years ago next Thursday, I set up this blog and wrote my first posting- all of two lines! Four years ago next Thursday, four British ro...

Yes, but held where? In a queue of mis-understanding religious leaders beying for his blood just two days ago, on Maundy Thursday? In the th...

"Can feel soft as your face, with mild, green, Fairy liquid". Come on now, be honest. You were ready to sing the second two lines ...

It's time to call it a day: The fourth of January two thousand and eight will do fine for the next few hours at least. Happy New Year! N...

Written in the small hours of Christmas morning, 25th December 2007, in a silent London suburb Is it merely a feeling Or the truth most appe...

"At the going down of the sun, and in the morning We Will Remember Them" This is Remembrancetide, in the UK- and most of the Commo...

What's the French- or indeed the Flemish- for 'Awayday', does anybody know? Readers of a certain age should have no problem spot...

THIS IS MY FIRST POSEY POST! Welcome aboard the 15.11 Reading- Cardiff train, courtesy of First Great Western.

Now here's something you don't see every day! This really was a Boeing 747-400 passenger aeroplane passing over Eastbourne Pier on 1...

It's a mega birthday blog today, as a new month also crowns a landmark celebration for the biggest youth movement in the world. Happy H...

Bonjour tous le monde- especialement les gens Francophone! Please excuse my very rusty schoolboy French, but you could be forgiven this Jul...

No, nothing more needs to be said here about Tony Blair who has been out of office exactly a week today- but already it seems like a lifetim...

You have to feel more than a tinge of sorrow for the hundred and fifty thousand or so soggy souls who paid £150 each and ventured down to th...

On Sunday, I wrote about freedom. Today, this page is dedicated to freedom of expression and of those who report the news. Mercifully only r...