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London’s Docklands

I went to London for the weekend but I could have been on the Moon. I was going to a wedding and I booked a room in a modern hotel in London’s redeveloped Royal Victoria Docks in the old East…

Internet melt-down

I was doing some routine tidying up the other day on my computer. You know the kind of thing, clearing logs, getting rid of email spam, making files and other nerdy activities which I had been putting off for months.…

The Trial of John Demjanjuk

When I feel like moaning about having builders in or having to go out to get a prescription from the chemists I should think of that trial going on in Germany this week where an old man called John Demjanjuk…

Bath Time

If I was fantasising about soaking in a luxuriously warm bath on this first frosty day of the winter, I was out of luck because my bath is now out in the garden. It looks strangely poignant lent against the…

Reflections On Water

As the light faded yesterday afternoon and another wet day drew to its conclusion my mind was left thinking about water. I had to clear the bathroom for the builders who begin installing a new one today. This morning it…

Goodbye Crocodile Rock

The suspense has been almost unbearable since those heady days in September when I first saw the sign Crocodile Rock on the shop across the road from where I live in Lewes, East Sussex. Since then it has been a…

The death of an amiable giant

I read about someone’s death this morning and felt that oddly non-personalised sense of loss which occurs when someone who you don’t know but who has always been there fades from the scene. It is a bit like when you…