Monday, January 22, 2024

À la recherche d'un village perdu

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As some of you will know, I am now the remote Chair of Creeting St Peter Parish Council, in that I don't live there any more. And you ar...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

A windy walk in the park

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As part of our adaptation to urban life, Ros and I have taken to exploring the wider town, and this morning, we took a short drive to one of...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

It’s the little things…

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Living in a small village does little for the concept of spontaneity. Indeed, I began to make the case for the benefits of having to plan th...
Friday, January 19, 2024

The medieval churches of Ipswich

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Day 2 of our course on the history of Ipswich took place last night and it was a slight diversion from the timeline, as we considered the su...
Monday, January 15, 2024

The Conservative dilemma over when to call a General Election reminds me of a poem…

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Framed in a first-storey winder of a burnin’ buildin’ Appeared: A Yuman Ead! Jump into this net, wot we are ‘oldin’ And yule be quite orl ri...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

It's going to be a cold night in political hell on Monday...

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I was drafting a piece for Liberal Democrat Voice to be published on Monday morning, and I was reminded that there's a pretty brutal wea...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Local Government finance: it seems that I may have been right all along...

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It would be fair to say that I am a fiscally cautious soul. I've loathe to borrow in order to fund expenditure, I believe in balancing t...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

The first (of many) evenings about Ipswich

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1780 map of Ipswich, credited to http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/map1780.html When Ros suggested that we might join the Ipswich Institute...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

A very interesting question indeed...

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In preparing the Liberal Democrat Voice preview of the week ahead in the Lords, I had noticed an intriguing question from one of the new Lab...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Twitter, or X, and why I'm planning on hanging around for a while yet...

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I've watched as a number of my friends and colleagues have given up on Elon Musk's train wreck. And there's no doubt that, for a...
Monday, January 08, 2024

My e-mail from the Conservatives cometh...

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Mark, We have halved inflation. Reduced our debt. And now, we are able to focus on the long-term decisions to strengthen our economy. We wil...
Sunday, January 07, 2024

As Conservative Party campaigns go, this isn’t a very good one

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As a service to my readers, I thought that I ought to test out this invitation from the Conservative Party… https://x.com/rishisunak/status/...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

Home again… to sleep, perchance to dream?

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Yes, we’re back from another family trip to see our granddaughter (and her parents, naturally). I even found some time to visit my own famil...
Friday, January 05, 2024

Might the US Supreme Court actually rule that Trump is in breach of the Fourteenth Amendment?

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Section 3.  No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civi...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

How you (don’t) end up with a May General Election

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There’s been a lot of debate about when Rishi Sunak will choose to go to the country, and a range of theories have been offered, many of the...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2024

By Amtrak to the Big Apple…

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Due to a technical complication with our flight home, our journey takes us not to Boston, but to New York, and so the question of how to get...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

A few things on the itinerary for the new year…

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Yesterday’s post was a bit sombre, I guess, but as a way of feeling my way back into this blogging malarkey, it was a start. Perhaps a look ...
Monday, January 01, 2024

Welcome to a New Year: 2024

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And so a new year begins, this time in Dover, New Hampshire, where Ros and I are on grandparent duty. It’s been a peaceful trip, with plenty...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Migration to Suffolk - a celebration

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Part of moving to a new location is about building connections in the community, and one of the great assets that Ipswich has is The Hold, t...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Wolsey 550 at the Suffolk Archives

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Probably Suffolk's most famous son is Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, born in Ipswich in 1473, and thus it only seems appropriate that there is ...