Monday, September 26, 2022

Liberal Democrat Internal Elections: "a million thanks, dear friends!"

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A few of you will know that I've thrown my hat into the ring again this year. Again, I wish to serve as a member of the Party's dele...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Recognition for the unsung heroes - the Suffolk Community Awards

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It's one of the things about moving from a city to a small village as I did more than a decade ago, you become much more aware of how co...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Creeting St Peter: it's time to bring the professionals in...

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Last November, our long-serving Clerk resigned somewhat unexpectedly. Naturally, as Chair, I sought to find a replacement but, in the absenc...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

It’s going to be a brutal winter, so we ought to be thinking ahead…

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I have to admit that, reading the various reports on the prospects for household finances, my blood runs somewhat cold. If, like me, you’ve ...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

A new constitution to play with...

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I guess that I should be flattered to have received the call. After all, it's not every day that you get invited to join a working group...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Not so fast, Cllr Valladares...

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Three months ago, I reported that my reign of terror four years as Chair of Creeting St Peter Parish Council was at an end . And I absolute...
Friday, July 01, 2022

The big train ride, day 9 - on a very comfortable wing and a prayer

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It was earlier in the morning than I would like, and I hadn’t actually seen Tarragona in daylight, but sometimes, a traveller has to do what...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

The big train ride, day 8 - in which some valuable lessons are learned…

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France was heating up, and I had a long train ride ahead of me. Which, as regular readers may recall, left me with a challenge. You see, I s...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

The big train ride, day 7 - across the continent to the home of condiment

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The idea of sleeper trains is a romantic one and it is easy to forget that, not so long ago, they were headed the way of the dinosaur. Deuts...

The big train ride, day 6 - a somewhat battered traveller detours in search of profit…

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Morning, and time to assess the damage. The knees were somewhat beaten up, with cuts and scrapes the record of the previous day’s mishap. Bu...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

The big train ride, day 5 - in which things go a bit wrong…

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It was another glorious day in the Tatras, and I was up relatively early in order to grab breakfast and explore. The sky was full of swallow...

The big train ride, day 4 - Stary, Stary night…

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Time for a change of scenery and a confession of sorts… Ostrava not, frankly, having an awful lot to detain the curious traveler in search o...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

The big train ride, day 3 - riding the Ostravan to an evening of light opera in Moravia…

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After another astonishingly good night’s sleep, it was time to leave Germany, as I had plans. I hadn’t actually done anything about them but...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

The big train ride, day 2 - I like gummy bears but, on the whole, I’d rather be in Dresden…

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So, the great adventure was under way, and I awoke with a sense of purpose in anticipation of… well, to be honest, I wasn’t really sure. I k...
Friday, June 10, 2022

The big train ride, day 1 - the longest journey starts with a single community bus ride…

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I enjoy travel, as regular readers will testify. And it is as much the actual journey as the destination sometimes. It’s not that being some...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

A genteel demonstration in the county town

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I am not, by nature, the sort of person who enjoys demonstrations. I’m increasingly less keen on crowds as I get older (and I wasn’t wild ab...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Creeting St Peter - my reign of terror is at a close

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I’d always been a strangely reluctant Chair of my Parish Council, something which might surprise those who have watched me carry out my duti...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Welcome to #allthestations… Liechtenstein…

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Morning found me at a self-service hotel buffet, with the only staff in sight restocking and clearing away - low-paid staff are clearly kept...
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Friday, April 22, 2022

In which I learn that I’ve been pronouncing Vaduz incorrectly all these years…

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It was a relatively gentle start, which was welcome after I’d arrived in Zurich just in time to catch the last shuttle to my hotel the previ...
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