On being derailed between Wye and Chilham

I spent yesterday with Liberator's Stewart Rayment and family at Hastings Pirate Day . (Arrr!") I took the train back through Rye t...

Martin Carthy and Family: Hog-Eye Man

To follow Cape Cod Girls by Baby Gramps, here is another track from  Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys .

The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury

This hunk of Chaucerian fantasy stands on the main drag through Canterbury. Enter its portals and you find yourself in a modern library, mus...

Refined Sugar Worsens Blood Lipid Markers of Cardiovascular Disease

Blood lipids such as LDL and HDL cholesterol are markers of the biological processes that impact cardiovascular disease, and they are common...

Reculver

Reculver is on the North Kent coast. It was once an important Roman fort: later a church was built within the fort. At the start of the 19th...

RIP Eddie Hardin

Eddie Hardin , who replaced Steve Winwood in the Spencer Davis Group, has died at the age of 68. Let us remember him with the theme from Mag...

Finding Your Place

If you were to ask a group of children what they do best, their answers will span a broad spectrum, some understandably typical, others refr...

The trouble with John Bercow

I see Mr Speaker's expense claims are in the news. Which gives me an excuse for offering this observation. The black gown he favours ma...

SMC goes "2-for-2" on weather delayed launch

by James Spellman, Jr. Space and Missile Systems Center Public Affairs 7/23/2015 -  LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, El Segundo, Calif.  -- Five...