Passing clouds of inconsequential observations
As we both had a day off, a rare coincidence, we went to the station…
and caught the first train that turned up; which took us to [W:Oxford].
We went for lunch at the Pieminister place in the covered market…
After which we explored the cavernous Blackwell’s book shop and then the Museum of the History of Science with its splendid lighting on the stairs…
but when we came out it was pouring with rain so we had a hot chocolate…
headed back to the station…
and home.
So you find yourself caught in a fire. Don’t panic. Just head for the wooden fence by the tanks of flammable liquid. That’s a safe place to be.
The Guardian’s [W:Ben Goldacre] piece today threw up some interesting links. The VoteMatch site is like an online dating service for you to be matched to your ideal local candidate. One particularly taxing question was the old tax breaks for educating children outside the school system….
I remain open minded about such things. While the BNP were in favour the Lib Dems (my ideal match apparently) were not…
It looks like a close call between Lib Dems and Greens but the local Green chappie, a teacher, has ruled himself out with a leaflet that promises to protect the education system; which is about as un-green a system as one could possibly devise.
The patch of garden sometimes euphemistically known as the vegetable plot has been abandoned since the flood three years ago. Somewhat overgrown it was broken up and turned over and then cleared and levelled and is now returning to a usable state…
The digging did turn up the usual bits of broken china, glass and slate; and a goddess of the earth appeared blinking in the sunlight….
They never turn up stuff like this on [W:Time Team].
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