Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Old St Pancras Church

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I have shown you Sir John Soane's mausoleum and The Hardy Tree in it its churchyard. Here is Old St Pancras itself. It is an oddly rur...

Lord Gnome on the Bowstring Bridge

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The Bowstring Bridge has made it into the new Private Eye. Unfortunately they refer to the Pump & Tap, the pub that is also threatened ...

Why isn't Mark Reckons shortlisted for Blog of the Year?

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Oh dear. I had just regained my usual cheerful equilibrium when I looked at the shortlists for the Lib Dem Blog of the Year awards again. A...
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Mark Oaten's sex life was the most remarkable thing about him

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I don't want to keep attacking Mark Oaten, but a myth about him is in danger of developing. It is fuelled both by Oaten himself and by ...
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Vince Cable is speaking in Leicester tomorrow

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Later: Details here . The following press release reaches me, but I am not sure precisely where it comes from: On Thursday 17 September, Vi...

Musical Ruth has her own website

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Good news. Musical Ruth , the nun with the mobile electric piano who was a highlight of Market Harborough Arts Fresco , has her own website....
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Mark Oaten sells his soul...

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...but doesn't get much for it. Last month I complained that Mark Oaten had agreed that his memoirs should be published on the eve of t...
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Demolition work on Bowstring Bridge delayed

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Leicester's Bowstring Bridge is not dead yet. The BBC reports this evening: Dismantling of the derelict Bowstring Bridge in the...

Independent Safeguarding Agency - I told you so

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From the Daily Telegraph : The recent storm of protest against the "intrusive" nature of the ISA – which critics claim will discou...

The Hardy Tree, Old St Pancras Churchyard

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Before he became a novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy was an architect. As a young man he studied under Arthur Blomfield , an architect based ...
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Lib Dem Blog of the Year nominations

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Liberal Democrat Voice has all the shortlists. Despite being the leading individual Lib Dem blog in the Wikio rankings as recently as June ...
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Ant Orkezdra

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Writing about the Market Harborough Arts Fresco on Sunday I praised the Ant Orkezdra. Here they are marching (though not in Harborough - th...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Tim Farron interviewed for Farmer's Weekly

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Don't look for controversy: What trait do you most admire about farmers? Their passion for the industry and their determination in the f...

Campaigners vow direct action to save Bowstring Bridge

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This is the front page story on today's Leicester Mercury : People campaigning to save a historic bridge in Leicester have vowed to take...

Sir John Soane's mausoleum at St Pancras Old Churchyard

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Past the Natural Park , Camley Street curves under the railway leaving St Pancras station. On the other side of the bridge you come to St Pa...

Alan Turing and Harry Golombek

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Gordon Brown's apology for the treatment of Alan Turing has reminded me of the time in the early 1980s when I was working in London sel...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Arts Fresco: Marching ants and motorised nuns

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Today was Arts Fresco day in Market Harborough. It brought thousands of people into the town, helping local businesses at a difficult time ...

Britblog Roundup 239

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Courtesy of Philobiblon .

Dusty Springfield: I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself

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Bob Stanley wrote in The Times earlier this year: Until relatively recently she was seen as one of a crop of stars of the era famous en...

Camley Street Natural Park, London

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Last year I wrote about the nature reserve at Camley Street next to St Pancras station for the New Statesman website: Each year more than 5...