The Chalybeate

We held a party last Saturday night, the first for three or four years.  Since we've been giving them at odd intervals since we moved in...

23rd April, St George's Day. Today was my longest off-road cycle ride for at least 8 years.  Moonface dropped me at Streatley, then I ...

Is it my age or a reading error? Yesterday I went for my annual check-up for my high blood pressure, so as usual I had my weight & heig...

or is this fantasy? Holidays have long been thought of as an escape from "real life", a temporary respite from the world of work...

It's been nearly three years since I wrote anything in this blog. Since then I've been fired from one job and resigned from another...

It doesn't happen in England. Except it does.  Early in July, a man walked into our friend Jim's office and fired a sawn-off sho...

I don't do festivals these days. Yes, when I was younger I went to Glastonbury a couple of times, Reading when I lived there...

Over the last couple of years, the Forestry Commission, Bristol council and the SW Cycling Project have been negotiating, designing & bu...