Sunday, November 30, 2025

A short history of correspondence with my family…

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When I was (much) younger, messages to my family were sent on something that looked like this, an aerogramme. They were designed to be light...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

A pleasant dinner, interrupted by someone being murdered…

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I’m always open to the idea of a good meal, and when Ros suggested dinner at the Suffolk Food Hall, I warmly welcomed the notion. There was ...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Looking at a polar bear, exit stage right…

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To London, for dinner with Ros and a visit to my parents. And that means a trip on newly-nationalised Greater Anglia, with its fairly new, q...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Time to bask in the glow of achievement... for now, at least...

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I have been gloriously re-appointed as Suffolk's member of the National Assembly of the National Association of Local Councils (NALC), r...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

If I die, can I come back a Valèncian?

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I’m at an age now where, if I can avoid a very early morning flight time, I will. Of course, that does potentially mean that my choice of de...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The road to power starts with a single step

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I have, mostly by dint of being too polite to say no, risen a surprisingly long way in the genteel world of Town and Parish Councils. I repr...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

The field for President and Vice-President is set - some more thoughts…

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So, with nominations closed, Babarinde vs Bray and Collins vs Hussain are the two contests at the top of the “bill”. Time, so think, to star...