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Category Archives: Past Times

Staring at brick walls

Wed, Mar 2021

I aim to go for a walk every day. Once a week, I meet up with one or other of …

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Alternative transport

Sun, Feb 2021

Whilst pedal-powered delivery services of every conceivable kind are common-place in Oxford, yesterday was the first time that I’d seen …

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Yesterday, today, tomorrow

Sun, Nov 2020

Blenheim Park, November 2020. … they only fade away

Headcases?

Mon, Sep 2020

Pitt Rivers Museum is to remove shrunken heads from public exhibition. The museum’s director says that “Rather than enabling our …

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For whom the bell tolls

Sat, Nov 2019

They’ve been having a bit of a ding-dong in Tower Hamlets where the Council has just approved a plan to …

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Down under

Tue, Aug 2019

Thanks to friend’s generosity, I have a year’s pass to the Historic Naval Dockyards at Portsmouth – this gives unlimited …

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Pitt-Rivers on steroids

Wed, Jun 2019

Snowshill Manor in Gloucestershire is a monument to wholesome English eccentricity – think Pitt-Rivers on steroids meets Harry Potter Originally …

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Sail and steam

Fri, May 2019

Earlier this month, I visited HMS Warrior – one of the fascinating exhibits in Portsmouth’s Historic Naval Dockyard, learnt a …

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Ascott House

Tue, May 2019

Ascott House is just outside Aylesbury on the road to Leyton Buzzard. I visited it with a friend last bank …

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HMS Victory

Sun, Jan 2019

The last time I visited Nelson’s flagship, we were shown round by a sailor who was a mine of information …

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