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I sit here perusing the things done today while the rain pitter patters on the window once again, and I cannot remember what I have don...

Enough is enough!  Being weaned in Edinburgh I am used to rain.  Gray skies are my birthright!  However I do think this constant gray s...

It was chauffeur driven to Chelmsford for me today.  Yes indeed a meeting concerning a Great War exhibition, of sorts.  This was the s...

A shot of village England from the train as we passed at high speed today.  A shot a second or so earlier would have given a slig...

Hope sprang this afternoon after I hobbled home from my walk around the various town banks.  Being the Sabbath the banks are closed...

Angela Merkel lands at Charles de Gaulle airport. Customs man: "Nationality?" Merkel: "German....

It's one of those weeks. The things that have impressed themselves on my mind, the museum, dead soldiers, Rangers men lying in the...

Businessweek Market Day failed miserably as the thunder and lightning, rain, hailstones and wind tended to put the buyers off.  In ...

Yes indeed at last I can justify using this brute of a laptop. In spite of things moving when they shouldn't, links disappearing and...

I was surprised as I made my way through the town early this bright and sunny morning to find St Georges Day was being ignored by his peo...

This time it's a passing shower, earlier it was large hailstones, much of the time merely rain!  Trapped I remained by the dam...

I have spent much of this week in a daze.  Another of those bugs has been irking me and my concentration levels have been low.  A pai...

Sadly as I passed the other morning the sun was shining on the other side of the street.  This is unfortunate as I would rather this ...

I spent an enjoyable morning at a volunteers get together at the Braintree Museum this morning. (Where most of the pictures come fro...

Heart of Midlothian F.C. Never in all my 25 years did I ever expect to see a Heart of Midlothian versus Hibernian Cup Final!  Today...

Just as mist heralds the dawn, daffodils and bluebells brighten the world, umbrellas in many hands, and men in shorts appear so crick...

By popular request I have been forced to stand outside on an early Spring morning to photograph the sun rising over the park.  Quite ...

Telegraph The Macmillan Online Dictionary tells me that the word 'Sympathy' refers to, 'a natural feeling of kindness a...

The Aldgate Pump, pictured here in 1880 surrounded by local worthies, still stands on this spot!  The pump marks the official beg...

George Osborne , our world renown millionaire Chancellor of the Exchequer, claims in a  Telegraph   interview today that he is 'sho...