My life on this, and other, enchanted isles
The photo story of my August trip to Northern Serbia – can now be downloaded here. Feat: Planet Earth’s maddest trumpet festival Feat: An adoring tribute in pictures to my new favourite hotel. We had lift off! One day all hotels would be like this Feat: Belgrade – it ain’t pretty but I love […]
Read More A trip to Northern SerbiaWent to see the Richard Long exhibition at the Tate Britain. At first there seems something banal, too cool and reductive about it – but then like settling into the rhythm of a long walk… Relativity and measurement Straight lines and meanders Stone and water Movement and stillness Outside and Inside The transient and […]
Read More It is solved by walkingI’ve posted some fairly upbeat posts about tackling climate change recently – but there was a less than optimistic message about the latest climate change science from Dr Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change to this year’s big low carbon vehicle event and conference held at London’s City Hall. Here’s […]
Read More Plug in cars on their way – but too little too late?Enjoyed a tribute the Leeds locomotive building industry (RIP) that was D2578’s Homecoming Weekend at the Middleton Railway. In my related internet explorations I came across the Leeds Historical Exploration Society’s site – which is a site of record of their various expeditions. Among their explorations is one of the last surviving of evidence of […]
Read More Viva Hunslet!Went to an interesting debate hosted by the Green Alliance last night, which featured leads from the three main parties on climate change. Key themes: – the biggest issue on climate change is can a global deal be done (given this requires the developed world to support the developing world)? – there is a consensus between […]
Read More Green Alliance Climate Change debateThe photo story of a trip through the backwaters of the Indian state of Madyha Pradesh this Christmas and New Year can be found here.
Read More From the Betwa to the NarmardaTwenty years ago I was given a book by a widowed lady from my dad’s church – from her husband’s library. I’ve only just got round to reading it – but somehow she was right to choose it for me and it was right to keep it all that time to read it. It’s rare […]
Read More The autobiography of a beggar boyBefore the de-industrialisation of the North, and the unit-isation of the railways, the youth cult of bashing was in full swing. Bashing being the art of accumulating haulage behind railway locomotives – either by type, or by distance, or by both. At that time the railways were still stocked with rolling stock from the ‘modernisation’ […]
Read More Dayrover days in the early EightiesWhen you step out into the chaos of a central Delhi street – with its dilapidated looking buses, battered taxis and auto-rickshaws fighting for space, it is hard to believe that Delhi has carried out one of the largest experiments in the greening of urban transport anywhere in the World. But since 2002 all buses […]
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Enchanted Isle 