Miscellaneous Musings

So Catalonia has declared independence from Spain. Basques next? Euro crisis looming? See  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780...

Unsurprisingly, there was widespread condemnation of the World Health Organisation making Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe their goodwill ambass...

Catalonia is quite a rich part of Spain. Spain cannot afford for it to break-away. It is hard to see how the EU would handle this. If Catalo...

You can tell it's autumn! This was our nearest garden centre this morning. At the other garden centre they had lots of Christmas thi...

Yesterday it rained.  If it rains in Cambridge, we are quite unlucky as rainy days are quite rare. We get them, but it rains far less in the...

Every Tuesday and Wednesday I travel into Cambridge for University of the Third Age lectures. On Tuesdays it is, "Weather and Clima...

Today we did a 2.4 mile walk at Wicken Fen. For me, this is a long walk these days!   Sadly, since my stroke, I find long walks tiring the...