Slovenia 3 euro 2015 - 500 years of Slovenian script

New bimetallic commemorative: " 500 years of Slovenian script " (news and image by Pabitra Saha )

San Marino 5 euro 2015 - Year of the Light

New silver commemorative: " Year of the Light " (news and image from Pabitra Saha )

Peru 1 nuevo sol 2015 - Moquegua architecture

New circulating type: " Moquegua architecture " This is the 21st coin of the series "Wealth and Pride of Peru" : (news b...

When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any Worse...

Surviving seventh grade with your dignity and inconspicuousness intact is no easy feat.  Sometimes you get to keep one but not the other.  I...

Shropshire Council tries to keep its secrecy secret

The excellent Andy Boddington, blogger and Liberal Democrat councillor for Ludlow North, wrote a post the other day, poking fun at the secre...

The Palace of Westminster is falling down

View image | gettyimages.com News that it will cost more than £5bn to restore the Palace of Westminster only confirms my view that the ans...

Toby Jones and a straw bear

The 19th-century poet John Clare once walked from an Epping Forest asylum to Northamptonshire without food or money. Andrew Kötting and auth...

Making your mind up: Farron vs Lamb

As other Liberal Democrat bloggers have pointed out, a video of a hustings with Tim Farron and Norman Lamb has been posted on Youtube by the...

In Flight

Early Monday morning as Xena and I strolled down the neighborhood street, birdsong surrounding us like a symphony, I caught a flash of blue ...